Up in smoke

A I have to admit that before visiting Sicily, my knowledge of the Mediterranean’s largest island was sparse. Of course, I knew about Mount Etna and had grown up with all the cultural cliches about Si

“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne

Oslo Rape charges: After a months-long investigation ...

Is a ring of 36 cherubs excessive? Perhaps, but those are only the ones around the southern Italian city of Lecce’s Basilica of Santa Croce’s rose window; I count dozens of additional cheeky winged ba

June walked through the sandstone arches into the small cobbled courtyard. Setting her suitcase down, she looked around, but she was alone. Walking over to what looked like a restaurant, she peered in

“Here we go again,” said Alessia Noto in ...