I love staying at hotels with interesting histories. This isn’t always possible, of course, but on a recent trip to Rome I hit on a good...

What is more pleasurable than reading a good book (Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy in this case) outside on a beautiful summer morning?...

"He seemed always to have liked scribes, archivists, librarians, historians - anyone who handled the past through books." The "he" in...