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The Guerrilla Fashionistas
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Op-Ed: When Americans Loved Fidel
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Leer en Español
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Cuba's Island of Lost Souls
Book Review: Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto
Learning to Navigate the Venetian Lagoon Like a Pro
The Secret Life of Boulder, CO
Bangkok's River of Kings
Regilding the Gilded Age in New York
The Oz of Art: Sydney Still Shines Out of the Sun
The Great Divide: Rich Tourist, Poor Tourist
Lords of the Prairie
Champions of Verse
When Poetry Was an Olympic Event
Georgia O'Keeffe's Island Fling: the Artist in Hawaii
Guidebooks to Babylon
Why Writers Belong Behind Bars
The "Frankenstein Summer" — Byron and the Shelleys on Lake Geneva
How Writers Build the Brand
Sydney: Paradise with a Past
The Beseiged and the Beautiful in Languedoc
Liberty, Equality, Gastronomy: Paris via a 19th Century Food Guide
America's Outback: Southern Utah
Op-Ed: Beware of Greeks Bearing Placards
The Doctor and the Nazis
My Manhattan: Where Writers Find Peace (Well, Sort Of).
Amongst the Devils: A Journey Through Tasmania
New Life for Old Hollywood
The Havana Beat
No Place Like Rome: A Local's Guide to Crowd-Free Ancient Sites
The Eternal City Never Sleeps: Telling the History of Rome Through Its Grand Hotels
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pdf version
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Miami to Key West: A Journey into Old Florida
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pdf version
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Ancient Egypt is New Again
A Trip to "the Parthenon of Shipwrecks": Greece's Underwater Museum
(
pdf version
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Urban Hiking: The Wilds of Sydney
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pdf version
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New York's El Quijote—A Kitsch Masterpiece—is Open Again at the Chelsea Hotel
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pdf version
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So Near and Yet So Far: Dreaming of Havana
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pdf version
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Cuba Carries On: Following a Photographer Around the Island
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pdf version
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What Lies Beneath: In Pompeii's Ancient Frescoes, Hidden Legends Are Exposed
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pdf version
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My Own Private Metropolis: NYC's Post-Pandemic Awakening
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pdf version
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The Secret History of Los Angeles
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pdf version
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Waaaay Off Broadway: New York's Immersive Theater Scene
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pdf version
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Frank Gehry's Last Stand
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pdf version
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Kayaking the LA River, an Improbable Eden
Japanese Relic: the Nikko Kanaya Hotel
Mexico City's Modernist Gem
A Secret Passageway to the World's Most Exclusive Magic Club
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pdf version
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Cold War Cuba: A Chip Off the Old Eastern Bloc
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pdf version
)
Kitsch Me If You CanSurreal Los Angeles: Kitsch Me If You Can
(pdf)
Prohibition Partying: Unquenchable Manhattan
(pdf)
Ai WeiWei's Triumphant Return
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pdf version
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The Interior Life of Donald Judd
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pdf version
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Valley of the Giants -- A Reclusive Millionaire's Vast New Zealand Sculpture Park
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pdf version
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Welcome to Lamu, Africa's Most Captivating Artists' Retreat
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pdf version
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Fly Away Home: Pigeon Art in NYC
Going Gaga for Dada
Art in Moscow: When Dasha Met Rem
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pdf version
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Fine Wine and Caviar — Made in China?
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pdf version
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The Coast of Utopia: Mexico's Careyes
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pdf version
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Brazil's Art Eden: an Adventure in Contemporary Art
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pdf version
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The Light Fantastic: Beijing's Temple Hotel
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pdf version
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The Shock of the Old: An Ancient Village Rises in China
(WSJ China) (
pdf version
)
Saving Old Rangoon: the Fight to Preserve Colonial Yangon
(WSJ Myanmar) (
pdf version
)
How Pierre Cardin Has Rebuilt a French (Sadist!) Village
Greek Revival: Athens Rediscovers its Ancient Life
The Wild, Wild South: Spain's Lost Province of Almería
The Last Empress of Rome
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pdf version
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The Importance of Being Istria: Exploring Croatia's Forgotten Peninsula
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pdf version
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The Tropical High Line in the Florida Keys
The End of the Trail: Following a Vintage Guidebook Through Oregon
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pdf version
)
The Florida Resort That Played an Unlikely Role in the Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Way of the Shogun: Hiking the Mountains of Ancient Japan
Roaring Through Cuba With Che Guevara's Son
Mungo Man: A 42,000 Year Old Skeleton Finally Goes Home
A Deep Dive Into Plans to Take Tourists to the "Titanic"
LA's Madcap Chemists of Booze
The Man Who Saved Havana
The Lovers of Shanxi: the Couple Who Saved China's Ancient Treasures
On the Waterfront: How NYC is Rediscovering its Maritime Spirit
Viva La Revolución!
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pdf version
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America's Late, Great Gilded Hotels
Charles Darwin's Forgotten World
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pdf version
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Ming Dynasty Touring: On the Road in Ancient China
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pdf version
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On Holiday with the Marquis de Sade
Italy's Trendy Troglodytes: the New Underground of Matera
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pdf version
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The Birth of the American Vacation
Houston on the Verge
Nudity, Art, Sex and Death — Tasmania Awaits You
Casanova Slept Here
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pdf version
)
Descending into Hawaii's Haleakala Crater
The Off-Beat Museums of Europe
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
The Lure of Capri
Behind the Scenes in Monument Valley
John Muir in Yosemite
Small Wonders: the Great House-Museums of Europe
Jewel of the Tetons
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pdf version
)
The Changing Face of Mount Rushmore
Little Bighorn Reborn
The Caesars Ride Again
"Fidelmania" in New York, 1959
Weekend Edition (National)
Venice's Life Aquatic
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pdf version
)
Las Vegas is Bigger and Brighter Than Ever
A Covid Chronicle from New York: Waking Up in the City of Dreams
(pdf)
Long Live the Ham Dungeon! Italy's Oddly Specific Food Museums
Australian Gothic: The First Aboriginal-Led Hiking Tour in Tasmania
Lost in New South Wales, Australia
The Art of Oz
(pdf)
The Forgotten Caribbean Revolution: Exploring Grenada
(pdf)
The Yeti and I: An Inside Look at the Self-Proclaimed Happiest Country on Earth, Bhutan
Under the Volcano: An Eyewitness Report from Guatemala
The Martinique Mystique
The Last Cruise: With the Vikings to the Arctic
The Art Scene in Moscow
A True History: The Birth Of Our National Parks
How Las Vegas Went Green
Privacy Please! The New Wave of Member's Clubs in NY and LA
Rwandan Rules
Inside Cuba's Boundary-Breaking Art Scene
What Che Guevara and Fidel Castro Read
Havana Underground: How to Handle the Cuban Capital
The Hidden History Behind the World's First Tourist Sites
New York's Eight Best Literary Sites
Fidel Castro's Secret Love Affair With New York
Andrew Zobler: Quality and Quantity
Havana Rising
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pdf version
)
Vanessa Friedman's Voice of Reason
Hong Kong Heat: the World's New Art Capital
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pdf version
)
Beyond the Balcony: Mallorca's Secret Life
New York's Grand Hotels Are More Glamorous Than Ever
Havana's Culinary Frontiers
Melburnia: the Reinvention of Melbourne
Outback Australia: A Space Odyssey
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pdf version
)
Babar and Me and the Deep Blue Sea
Romancing the Rails
The Ancient Games: In the Grip of Hercules
The Secret City: Inside the Vatican
Paris for Perverts: the 'Erotic Archaeology' of the Belle Epoque
Hellfire Holidays
The Pervert's Grand Tour
Anthologies
Charles Darwin's Forgotten World
(first published in Smithsonian Magazine),
Link to Story
,
Link to pdf version
Fine Wine and Caviar — Made in China?
(first published in WSJ Magazine),
Link to Story
Where was the Birthplace of the American Vacation?
(first published in Smithsonian Magazine),
Link to Story
The Pervert's Grand Tour
(first published on Slate),
Link to Story
The Joy of Steam
(first published in worldhum.com)
Link to Story
Spain in a Minor Key
(first published in Islands Magazine)
Zoned in Zanzibar
(first published in Escape Magazine)
The Epic for the Everyman
The Semen of Hercules
The Ancient Roman Reading Craze
Dog Days: Is New York as Vile as Ancient Rome?
The Literary Olympics
The Devil's Playground
Lost in Space
Lost Coast, Found
Behind Closed Doors on Molokai
Lanai: the Forgotten Hawaii
The Smallest Getaway
Revenge on Capri
Other Historical Travel Stories
Mediterranean:
Agamemnon's Fan Club (perceptivetravel.com)
Work-Out of the Gods: Hiking Italy's Amalfi Coast (
National Geographic Adventure
)
Rome: Bring on the Bloodbath! (
London Sunday Times
)
The Joy of Steam (worlhum.com)
Hail, Basil Fawltius! (
London Sunday Times
)
Caribbean:
St Lucia: the Great Petit Piton Climb (
National Geographic Adventure
)
The Aristocrats of Antigua (
Islands
)
Old West:
Cheyenne Frontier Days (
London Sunday Times
)
The Fading Ghosts of Montana (
London Sunday Times
)
Dying with Custer (
London Sunday Times
)
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