elsewhere - Lisa Pasold

French writer Daniel Pennac is currently reading Herman Melville's Bartleby , nightly, on a little side-street not far from the Paris O...

in this bookcase alone, i have Margaret Atwood (whose Handmaid's Tale came under fire just last month in Ontario), Alice Walker (a gro...

raise a glass to Charles Darwin! everyone's favourite bearded evolutionist was born exactly 200 years ago, on February 12, 1809. the NYT...

the snow is already melting from one of my favourite Paris streets. the domes of Sacre Coeur looked particularly eerie through this morning...

with thanks to 2 or 3

Parliament has reopened...without any bling. "old decisions must be rethought" is about as radical as Harper got, in the Governor ...

President Barack Obama might want a map for his new Georgian Neoclassical address...the place has 132 rooms. the original building was desi...

see those military men in the lower part of this picture? they were standing 6 miles from the atomic epicenter of the "Dog shot" o...