The Reporter vs. the Novelist ...
THE NOVELIST is a private creature, the reporter a public one, and the two have little to nothing in common. That more or less sums up...
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EVERY NEWSPAPER REPORTER at some point in her hectic career flirts with the idea of cutting loose to write a novel, just as every...
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A CURIOUS THING happened to me about a week ago for taking to heart the adage When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I was traveling to...
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July 20 is an anniversary day in Cyprus. South of the Green Line, it is a day of sirens, memorials, cemetery services and hunger...
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IN CYPRUS soccer—known more sensibly as football outside the U.S.—is bound up in politics. Each soccer team is affiliated with...
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ON THIS DAY seven years ago I set off to hike up a volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli. Stromboli burps up a respectable geyser...
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