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.

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Reviews

Peggy Thompson

A moment with holden

Review of "Holden After & Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose" by Tara McGuire.

Dispatches

Danielle Hubbard

The muse hunt

"The following resume / arrived by fax: One ex-military / man, 52, applying / for duty ..."

Reviews

Jonathan Heggen

The Common Shaman

Review of "Shaman" by Kim Stanley Robinson.