Join us at Trevor Hall, a beautiful Georgian mansion in North Wales, for a modern take on the traditional country house party — with literary fun, sumptuous food, friendly people, and a strong sense of community.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got the art of Edward Gorey, the UK's iconic Gothic destinations, how to read a novel, Golden Globes fashion as books, and more.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got 25 great Irish novels, a doc about cartoonist Art Spiegelman, a dreamy Vienna atelier, an infinitely readable book, and more.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got holiday movie haiku, style inspired by Emily Brontë, refurbished Casa Battló, weird stuff at TSA, Christmas history, and more.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got the best Christmas markets, museum cafés in NYC, Beatrix Potter's gingerbread, a new (posh) dude ranch in Montana, and more.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got words of the year, restoring a Venetian palace, new mystery adaptations, sandwich tips, a new British sleeper train, and more.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got an interview with the author of Orbital, a 17th-century color guide, how to fold napkins, drinking culture in Czechia, and more.
Grab your rain slicker, favorite sunglasses, and TBR to join us on a virtual trip to Seattle. Snowy mountain peaks, fresh sea air, evergreen forests, and bookish delights to lure you indoors after outside playtime.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got how to pack like Poirot, funny mystery novels, a charming Swiss Alps hotel, the rise of cookbook stores, Uzbekistan, and more.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got transporting priceless art, the Algonquin Round Table, unique apartment buildings, Miss Jean Brodie, handmade books, and more.
Join us for a stroll through the cemetery. It's just a museum — in the form of a peaceful park — filled with stories of the lives people lived, the monuments that honor them, and the living who pay their respects.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got Halloween movie locations, manor house paintings, Día de los Muertos, a new Bram Stoker story, a library dungeon, and more.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got funny (wrong) Jane Eyre quotes, a spy-inspired Europe trip, Notre Dame's restoration, Holbein's spooky engravings, and more.
To-do list for a fantastic trip to Brazil: Sip a caipirinha. Sunbathe at Copacabana Beach. Take a big bite of feijoada. Dance the samba. Splash in a waterfall at Jalapão State Park. Shake a tail feather at Carnaval.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got the world's hazelnut capital, an absinthe crime story, noteworthy books for October, creative note-taking, seahorses, and more.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got a reading list for people who love lists, what we can learn from D&D, a perfect weekend in Venice, cute Euro towns, and more.
Saudi Arabia inarguably has a troubling track record on human rights. In the last few years, its Prime Minister backed a vision with fewer restrictions and big plans for tourism. Will old ways or new ideas prevail?
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got the Wuthering Heights debacle, autumn quotes, a sausage-loving dog, a Wes Anderson show in London, Slovenian food, and more.
Down fog-dimmed alleys and into smoky speakeasies saunters the dedicated PI — following where the clues and, maybe, an alluring femme fatale lead him — in pursuit of the truth, no matter how hard that truth may be.
Every Friday, we share our favorite book- and travel-related links. This week, we've got an ode to The Chicago Manual of Style, Impressionism at the National Gallery, why to visit Armenia, Medieval cats, and more.
From the beginnings of real-life detection in 18th-century France to the hard-boiled capers of 20th-century noir and thoroughly modern lady detectives, we delve into the delightful mysteries of literary detection.
