Midatlantic

Tomorrow is America’s Independence Day. Every year on this day I have the strange feeling of being neither here nor there. I grew up far fr...

The recent flare-up of violence in Northern Ireland  brought back memories of the province when I visited as a young TV researcher in the m...

I am rereading The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. I first read it about 15 years ago at a gallop, caught up in the loves and hates of th...

The Nazis enter Paris in 1940 - for real I have long been fascinated by the potential of using counterfactual or alternative history in f...

Here is another image from the Gauguin exhibit that imposes the painter’s invented cosmology on a very real landscape. Its title is Mahana ...

Yesterday I finally made it downtown to the National Gallery of Art to see the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth that originated at the Ta...

An American traveler to Tahiti before the First World War describes Lovainia – the proprietress of the Tiare Hotel in the capital, Papeete....