10 | ALL of 18 results for "Americas"
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Maxing out the Muse in Manhattan
13 July 1998 • 677 words • City of Words
The news in the world of journalism here in Manhattan is that Tina Brown, the editor of the New Yorker, whose six-year tenure at the… more»
Other Americas
7 September 1998 • 1,397 words • City of Words
A reader in Ecuador takes me to task over the use of the word “American”. Why, asks Lincoln Reyes, is it routine to use this… more»
The apotheosis of Spam
October 1995 • 1,321 words • City of Words
The Daily Camera is a newspaper published in Boulder, Colorado; Jack Collom is a local poet; John Bayley is a British literary critic; Roger Scruton… more»
The return of deep throat
2 February 1998 • 848 words • City of Words
The White House sex scandal can’t be said to have advanced the cause of truth in politics; but it has staked out, for better or… more»
Eyeing the hurricane
4 October 1998 • 1,378 words • City of Words
I was diving with my nephew Tom Walmsley off the reef at Paradise Point, ogling the parrotfish and baby sharks, when the 48-hour hurricane warning… more»
Translating Caetano
2001 • 4,425 words • Reportage & Criticism
In the late 1980s I was living in Salvador da Bahia, the old capital of Brazil, studying Portuguese. I didn’t spend much time in class. There… more»
07.05.2015 All along the Bays
7 May 2015 • 1,855 words • Field Notes
Yesterday I walked from Tivoli, a village in upstate New York where I… more»
The sound of sweetness
September 1995 • 1,064 words • City of Words
I was stepping out of my front door on my way to work in London a few weeks back when a black guy staggered round… more»
