Book Review: If Venice Dies
/The tourist magnet of Venice faces an uncertain future on many fronts - but Salvatore Settis has many possible solutions in mind ...
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/An author spends years traveling to the various final resting places of the Apostles - and comes back with an unsettlingly insightful new look at the early history of Christianity
Read MoreBook Review: Peaks on the Horizon
/A gripping new book takes readers inside the fabled - and troubled - land of Tibet
Read MoreLast Month's Issue
/A new history of China, the year's reading highlights, who was Terence Rattigan?, who was Horace?, mainstream perfumes!, a new James Bond, new fiction, and the end of the end of A Year with the Windsors
Read MoreWalk, Swim, Grumble
/Olivia Laing's digressive natural history of the 42-mile-long River Ouse is filled with philosophical meditations, childhood memories, and of course the ghost of Virginia Woolf.
Read MoreSophistication and Recklessness: Patrick Leigh Fermor
/With Patrick Leigh Fermor's death, the world lost a gracious host, a tireless traveller, and one of the best prose stylists of the 20th century. We pause to appreciate him.
Read MoreBook Review: God's Middle Finger
/Richard Grant take a trip to the hellhole of the Sierra Madre a (barely) lives to tell about it
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