Across Cultures

I don't care what you've discovered. You still could have written. Christopher Columbus' mother

Some years ago, when spending a lot of time in Asia, and mostly in Bangkok, I regularly read the Bangkok Post's Trink Page that sort of...

Es ist selten, dass man auf Bücher stösst, die nahezu perfekt sind. Georg Gersters „Weltbilder“ gehört dazu. Und warum nicht ganz perfekt? W...

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world....

The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: ‚I don't intend to publish, I...

Es liegt gut zehn Jahre zurück, dass ich meinen ersten längeren journalistischen Text geschrieben habe, der jedoch nie veröffentlicht word...

Enric Gonzalez, author of a perceptive and hilarious book on London, Historias de Londres , and former correspondent of El País, says the E...