Globalization and its Discontents
…homemade honey vodka, still stamped with the fading letters CCCP and poured us each a stiff drink. Through wild gestures and, eventually, song, we pieced together his bewilderment: that someone…
Why Granada is our favorite city in Spain
Revisiting one of my favorite cities in Spain. A trip though Granada for Matador Network where the Alhambra isn’t the only stop. Almost 10 years now since another piece I…
My Marbella Story Found a Home
…this piece I venture beyond Marbella’s glittering façade of sun-saturated luxury—Ferraris, gold chains, shopping sprees—and into the old town’s labyrinth of alleys where the echoes of medieval wanderers still linger….
The Gospel According to Groucho
…time, the machinery of hypocrisy grinding everything to paste, and the saints of this land who may be scarred but are no longer innocent. Read the full piece (in Spanish)…
The great Franco revival circus
…a growing number of young people claiming: “Under Franco, we lived better.” In my latest piece for the Camino de Ítaca column, I dig into why this kind of nostalgia…
The Ice Cream Man
…the original unedited piece below. (PDF en castellano abajo) It took place just down a covered corridor that was sporadically lit by what seemed like bullet holes in the tin…
Biblical Taxis
…want to turn around and wonder why you didn’t stay at home… …but sometimes it isn’t. Click over here for a new piece on a taxi ride south from Damascus….
Homer on the Range
…so enamoured of its own story that it can no longer see where that story might be taking it. Published in the Literary Review of Canada: Homer on the Range:…
Stories Left in Stone Deep Dive Chapter 16
In the first of the #StonesDeepDive series, an indepth look into Chapter 16, Stone Cartoons from Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain published by the University…
A Ship Made of Paper
…soon wind up like the United States. All’s it takes is a vote in the right direction. Click over to read originally published version in Spanish or read the English…