Eldorado

Every museum partakes of our ambivalence toward Eldorado, the kingdom of gold

Art museums and geographical exp

Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is the award-winning author of hundreds of works, most recently (in English) Fabulous Monsters, Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions, Curiosity and All Men Are Liars. He lives in New York. Read more of his work at manguel.com.

SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU

Reviews

Anson Ching

A history of outport rivalry

Review of "The Adversary" by Michael Crummey.

Dispatches

Sara Cassidy

The Lowest Tide

Nature’s sanctity is the only portal to the future.

Reviews

Kris Rothstein

DEFINED BY DUMPLINGS

Review of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings" edited by John Lorinc.