Ernest Hemingway Drank Here

Touring The World's Greatest Literary Pubs.

What Did Ernest Hemingway Really Drink?

Mostly rum.

Doomsday Prep for the Super-rich

Some of the wealthiest people in America are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.

The Cultured Life

And why it is worth pursuing.

What Orwell discovered in the North

All Roads lead from Wigan.

Everything About Mars Is The Worst

Still humanity’s best hope for another home in the cosmos.

Pleistocene Park

Bring ’em back.

Himalayan Journal

Almost as entertaining as Hind Cartwheel.

How Europe Became so Rich

In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How?

Bin Laden's Bookshelf

Fascinating.

Quote Unquote

A sentence goes viral—why?

What Orson Welles Really Thought about Ernest Hemingway

Rediscovered manuscript suggests director detested writer’s macho portrayal of Spanish culture.

Ernest Hemingway’s Adventures In Alcohol

Ernest Hemingway not only drank a lot, he drank widely, from his own version of a daiquiri to cocktails, champagne, beer, whiskey, Campari, and rice wine.

The Future of the Book

A Thousand Hands Will Grasp You with Warm Desire: On the Persistence of Physical Books.

The 200 Happiest Words in Literature

I have more.

Bed Sizes Around the World

Malaysia’s looking a little small.

Shawn Wasabi

Spicy Boyfriend.

Great Adventure Books

Not including mine.

Quiet, Please

Need more of this.

Brilliant Artist

Also an excellent marksman, talented chef, and wonderful neighbour. 

Nobody is Home

Home has been displaced by an idea that’s both elusive and contested.

Small Minded

Short-sighted, and mean-spirited.

Storyhealing

Literature can enthuse medicine, and medicine can inspire literature. They are complementary treatments for being human.

Unspeakable visions

Jack Kerouac made a wish to evoke that indescribable sad music of the night in America.

Kafka: A Life Beyond Literature

Reiner Stach’s three-volume biography is a magnificent achievement.

What Writers Really Do When They Write

What is the mysterious process?

A 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb

Upended what we thought we knew about the roots of Western Civilization.

Booze

Alcohol  has been a prime mover of human culture from the beginning, fueling the development of arts, language, and religion.

Haruki Murakami’s Metaphysics Of Food

How meals and cooking are his most deeply intimate subjects.

Ten Easy Steps

To becoming a novelist.

Improve any Novel

Change its second line to “And then the murders began.”

We Need More ‘Useless’ Knowledge

Yes we do.

When Robots Read Books

Artificial intelligence sheds new light on classic texts. Literary theorists who don’t embrace it face obsolescence.

No, There Isn’t

There is a moral argument for keeping great apes in zoos.

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Cellphone

Ever.

Little Bit of Poison for Everyone

Papa’s letters.

Why Great Critics Make Disastrous Judgments

Because reading ain’t writing.

The Answer is No

Is Consciousness an Illusion?