Everett Potter's Travel Report

By Richard West Anybodyanybodyanbody, don’t click and leave, give this a read, how ‘bout you now, one minute of your time, one 60th of an hour, we got some winners,… Continue reading »

By Richard West In the world of mystery fiction cold Scandinavia is the hot spot these days. Increasingly readers are discovering Norway’s Jo Nesbo and Karin Fossum, Iceland’s Arnaldur Indridason,… Continue reading »

  By Ed Wetschler Central Park, a two-and-one-half mile-long swath of green in the heart of Manhattan, is right up there with Times Square and Ground Zero as must-see sights… Continue reading »

  Reviewed by Richard West Imagine a  country  where astrologers  often  change the calendar, adding or subtracting days or months (no Mondays!); governed by a policy of Gross National Happiness, … Continue reading »

  Reviewed by Richard West Somewhere in George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Will Ladislaw airily posits that some places should remain unknown, “preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination.” I don’t… Continue reading »

Reviewed by Richard West Are you about to get married? Be careful what you read.  In a book on language evolution, Julian Smith, soon to wed Laura, his girlfriend of… Continue reading »

Reviewed by Everett Potter So you think you know everything about Italian food? Okay wise guy, did you know that pasta was traditionally eaten with fingers as street food in… Continue reading »

Reviewed by Richard West We greet the new year with a brilliant new travel-book phylum: the literary atlas. Since the 1500’s when Flemish geographer, Gerhardus Mercator drew up the first… Continue reading »

By Richard West ‘Tis the season of inflatable Santas, Christmas lights, and those creepy electric-twig reindeer in yards with endlessly grazing heads. And drum roll, please end-of-the-year lists!  Including our… Continue reading »

By Richard West Musica  letitiae comes medicina dolorum: “music is the companion of joy, the balm of sorrow.” And so are certain books, especially so when they are great ones… Continue reading »