Travel Journal: Freiburg im Breisgau

Norbert Ruebsaat looks at, listens to, and tastes Freiburg, Germany, where the language borders subtly shift..

Chicken Bingo — Belize

The rooster has pooped. It’s chicken bingo time in Belize with feisty explorers and an under-the-weather hubby. Vivien Lougheed explains all.

Language and Silence, or, Just Shut the Fook Up

Tim Parks travels to the end of his mind in search of a little peace and quiet.

The Mother-in-Law Joke

Stephen Marche thinks it’s the Golden Age of reading and writing. Howard Jacobson thinks readers are disappearing and fiction is “fooked” (as they say in England). Stan Persky investigates.

When Atoms Collide

Stephen Greenblatt tells the story of a Renaissance book-hunter’s trip to the library. Stan Persky looks at Greenblatt’s “The Swerve” and the pushback from its critics.

Bowering’s Pinboy

Brian Fawcett offers a review of George Bowering’s Pinboy

“This is the Age of Aquarius. The candles will blow themselves out.”

Stan Persky reads a long biography of Richard Brautigan.

Reading Stan Persky Reading the 21st Century

Norbert Ruebsaat files an appreciation of Stan Persky’s Reading the 21st Century.

Megaballers: Charlotte Gill’s Eating Dirt

John Harris takes on Charlotte Gill’s award winning book on treeplanting. He thinks it’s pretty good, but better on forestry and treeplanting than on the treeplanters themselves.

Terry Glavin’s Afghanistan, and ours, too.

Terry Glavin doesn’t see Afghanistan the way the mass media and the progressive left do. Brian Fawcett thinks he’s got it right, and that we’re all involved.

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