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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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Udawalawe: a Popular Pachyderm Park

Asia
“See the electric fence?” Our guide Ruwan pointed to the serious barrier stretching around the park perimeter. “This is to stop elephants going out...
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A Trip to Galle Fort

Asia
Last week we spent a couple of sweltering days in Galle Fort, a pretty, touristy spot enclosed in a huge old fort on a...
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Hotel California with an Indian Ocean View

Asia
The place we’re in now is not the worst hotel in the world. It has a pool, wifi and air conditioning, as advertised. The...
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Lankania: Kings and Birds

Asia
On Thursday it was time to head south for the beach town of Hikkaduwa. We decided against getting the train, because we would have...
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Sri Lanka’s Sensory Shocks

Asia
“It’s funny--it always strikes me how amazing it is--that in less than half a day you can be on the other side of the...
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Opera Nite: Carmen at the Teatro Regio

Italy
In an era when you can listen to practically anything practically anywhere, it’s a wonder anyone still bothers going to the opera. It’s an...
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Clive James’s Ape-Call

Obituary
When I was growing up in the 1980s, my brothers and I were occasionally allowed to stay up late to watch Saturday Night Clive....
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Two Days A-Roving in Venice

Italy
First Day:  St. Mark's Square There’s an awful lot to see in Venice but it’s possible have a spectacular day doing just two things: floating...
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Tuesday in Treviso

Italy
On Monday we arrived in the Veneto, Italy’s northeastern region whose most famous city, Venice, is still recovering from damage caused by record alta...
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My Memoir about Living in Saudi Arabia

Memoir
Between 2011 and 2012 my husband John and I lived and taught in Najran, Saudi Arabia. It was one of the strangest, most interesting...
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Chocolate Town

Italy
‘There will be chocolate everywhere,’ banners around Turin have been offering this cheering prospect for the last couple of weeks. Naturally, I wanted in...
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Warrioresses of the Rising Sun

Asia
The Museo Arte Orientale (MAO) is one of the best museums in Turin, coaxing you into alien perspectives with amazingly beautiful artefacts and clear...
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