The Italian island of Lampedusa, situated between Malta and the Maghreban shore, resembles a seagirt stone finger pointing west towards…
The City of Westminster Magistrate’s Court, located in a nondescript brick building on Horseferry Road, between Vincent Square and the…
The Polish poet and playwright Jan Kochanowski penned and presented The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys to the court of…
The Prophecy and Other Stories By Drago Jančar, (Northwestern University Press, 143 pages, $16.95 paper) As the Paris Conference of…
In 1942, as local gardaí collected and catalogued the intumescent corpses of the Allied sailors regularly washing up on the…
In his 1953 collection of political essays, The Captive Mind, the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz described a visit by a…
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — It was the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana that hosted President George W. Bush during his first tour…
It is an infamous historical irony that the post-independence Congolese leader Mobutu Sese Seko’s Riviera palace was located next to…
Of particular note regarding last month’s Estonian Bronze Soldier crisis, during which Russian nationalists groups clashing with police and Russian…
House of Meetings by Martin Amis (Knopf, 256 pages, $23) After Martin Amis, the renowned but polarizing English writer, tackled…
