From the Local to the Global
Neither of these titles includes the word “globalization” or even “global,” though the knitting together of the world is in fact the subject of both of...
Magic Mountains
As you finish one of these stories you might have the sensation that you’ve awakened abruptly in unfamiliar territory, far afield from where you thought you...
Enemies of Progress
Sometime in late 1983 or very early 1984, I traveled to Ouagadougou, the capital of a West African country then called Upper Volta, to get a...
Mogul of Mystery
Over the past two years—since the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein in July 2019 on charges of trafficking minors and then his suicide in prison; Prince Andrew’s...
Where Sheep May Safely Graze
What to Look For in Spring,…Summer,…Autumn, and…Winter are four small books published in the early 1960s by Ladybird, a legendary British children’s publisher. The charmingly eccentric...
The Uses of Portraiture
It is hard, looking at the young Alessandro de’ Medici in Jacopo da Pontormo’s painting of 1534–1535, not to empathize. Long-nosed and tender-eyed, he has a...
On the Road
On March 17, 1709, Antoine Galland, the French translator of The Thousand and One Nights, wrote in his diary of meeting in Paris a certain “Hanna,”...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 16, 2021
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Occupy Memory
For the past twelve years, I have lived in New York’s Financial District. When I first moved in, during the crash of 2008, I listened for...
