Julio Ramón Ribeyro was a Peruvian author best known for his short stories; his work is enjoying a surge of attention in Peru on the 90th anniversary of his birth. Shopping in Lima I was torn between his collected stories, a formidable brick of a book, and his Prosas...
Though we made the obligatory pass past Buckingham Palace, Ben and I had a commoner’s experience of London; we didn’t see royal privilege up close. Versailles promised to change all that. Built at a deliberate remove from the city, the Paris suburbs have...
