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Eileen Jones’s Cinematic Life

Interviews
Few film critics writing today are as educated, prolific, or funny as Dr. Eileen Jones. A co-host with Dr. Dolores McElroy of the weekly podcast Filmsuck and the author of hundreds of articles about film and TV, notably for the left-wing periodical Jacobin, she is the film critic par excellence of the “age of crap cinema”. One of the most...
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Dido of Carthage, Illustrated

Africa
Tunisia is a sweet place to visit, not least because of the evocative Roman ruins overlaying tantalizing traces of the even more ancient Carthaginian...
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Puglia Things

Italy
We are house hunting in Puglia right now and it is pretty stressful. There is a reason all those books and shows about people...
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Ten Saudi Women Writers

Middle East
This week, to celebrate the release of an audiobook version of Girls of the Empty Quarter (also published as Teacher, We Girls!), my memoir...
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Islamic Art at the Aga Khan Museum

History
Of all the places I’ve visited (and that I keep wanting to share with you guys), one in particular keeps coming to mind. About...
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10 Portraits of Scottish Women

UK
On a quick trip to Edinburgh we stopped in at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, which was a really beautiful and well curated art...
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Glasgow’s British Imperiorium

Travel
 “Glasgow,” I said one day, “I am going to have a look at you.” I got up early and set out from our hotel,...
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Scottishness North and South

History
We were just in Glasgow for a couple of months and my abiding impression is that it felt like home. There is a pretty...
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Hotel Horror

Travel
John has been having a hard time lately; he has not been very well since a dentist pulled out one of his molars a...
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Running the Mozart 100

Featured
Last September we went to Salzburg so I could run in the Mozart 100 ultramarathon, officially called Mozart 100 by UTMB®. I'd chosen this...
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Green-Wood Cemetery

Cemetery
"By the 1860s, only Niagara Falls was drawing more visitors annually than Green-Wood. Twenty years before Central Park, the cemetery was effectively New York's...
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The Brooklyn Greenway

Americas
If you're ever in Brooklyn, why not take the Greenway? You can bike, walk, roll or run along the coast from Newtown Creek (opposite...
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Rory Gallagher’s Hardboiled Blues

Detective Fiction
Rory Gallagher, for those whose ears have not yet been blessed, was Ireland's Archdruid of bluesy rock, a virtuoso on the guitar, an electrifying...
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