Eva Holland I loved having moose spareribs for dinner last night. I ate some muskox from a few hundred miles north over the holidays, but this was my first taste of the local wild game. Delicious!  Read More →

REUTERS/Louafi Larbi We write a lot about Airworld and the notion that, beyond the security gates, the world’s airports are becoming more alike by the day. But a nice story in Reason about a press junket to Libya suggests that Tripoli’s airport retains its unique, uh, charm: When the BBC reported that “at Tripoli’s ultra-modern airport…you could be almost anywhere in the world,” I expected at bare minimum... 

This post on Eye Blog has a History Detectives feel, chronicling the history of a forgotten Pan Am Airlines advertising campaign from the early ’70s. The effort to rebrand the troubled airline failed—eventually, so did the airline—but the designs are now celebrated. A few of the posters were recently featured in an exhibit at MoMA in New York. Check out a few  Read More →

Roger Cohen has a half-baked theory : I’ve noticed God is making a comeback. It’s not just all the craziness in the Middle East. Soccer players now look to the heavens when they score goals. Come on! A touchdown prompts skyward glances. This didn’t used to happen. It would have been considered loony. My theory is it must have something to do with air travel. Survivors of it feel compelled to search out a savior.  Read More →

St. Petersburg’s Church of the Savior on the Spilled Blood is reflected in a puddle on the street  Read More →

Slate’s Julia Turner just concluded a terrific series about signs —Penn Station’s horrible ones, London’s plans for better ones, efforts to standardize exit signs, what GPS technology means for the future of signs and why signs are “the most useful thing you pay no attention to.” For an example of the consequences of what happens when you don’t pay attention to signs while  Read More →

In an excerpt from her book “Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven,” Susan Jane Gilman recalls 1986 China — and a swaggering, lascivious man named Trevor  Read More →

Last year Christoph Niemann rendered New York landmarks and experiences in LEGOs . Now he’s mapped “the most accurate routes for all occasions,” including the Hokey Pokey, an omelet and Rumsfeld’s Iraq . Clever stuff.  Read More →

Students at all grade levels read a lot more fiction than nonfiction—think Mark Twain and J.K. Rowling. As Tom Kuntz points out in the New York Times , a recent survey found that of the top 20 books being read these days by high school students, only two are nonfiction. Many observers are rightfully questioning why students aren’t reading more nonfiction. Writes Jay Mathews in the Washington Post : Educators say non-fiction is more... 

Volkswagen Golfs are stacked in one of the massive glass silos at Autostadt, the Volkswagen theme park  Read More →

Larry Clark contemplates the power of monuments and memorials — and the fleeting moments we spend with them  Read More →

Time-lapse images from the Polish capital  Read More →

Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news  Read More →

Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news  Read More →

The collection includes DFW’s childhood and college writings, handwritten drafts of “Infinite Jest,” and his heavily marked-up copies of books by Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, John Updike and others. The university press release includes links to high-res images of a few items from the archive. (Via Kottke ) David Foster Wallace was, of course, the author of one of our favorite travel stories: Shipping Out .  Read More →