“Beyond the shadow of a doubt certain natural artefacts have a density, a mystery, an intensity we often find in works of art.”                                                …...read more »

With Mercè Rodoreda's novel La Placa del Diamant  (translated as The Time of the Doves) in hand,  we took a lulling hour-and-a-half train ride from Girona to the sprawling, modernist city of Barcelona. The distance between Girona, the capital of the rural province of Gironès…...read more »

"Landscape elucidates literature, because literature                                                                 is the landscape’s…...read more »

Throughout history writers have, again and again, undertaken journeys—journeys of the mind and actual journeys, traveling across their respective homelands as well as exploring more distant, foreign territories. They have traveled, one could argue, to feel captivated and reinvigorated by a sense…...read more »