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

Michael Hayward

Getting past the past

Review of "A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past" by Lewis Hyde.

Dispatches

Mazzy Sleep

Heart Medicine

"You have bruises / There was time / You spent trying to / Heal them. / As in, time wasted."

Dispatches

Margaret Nowaczyk

Metanoias

The names we learn in childhood smell the sweetest to us