Jackie Collins’s Los Angeles
The novelist imagined women enjoying equality in the bedroom and the boardroom. Are we any closer to living in that world?
The Writer’s Way
Charles Darwin’s Galápagos Islands
What Darwin saw in the Galápagos
J. M. Coetzee’s Cape Town
Searching for the Nobel laureate in Cape Town, the city he left behind
Henry James’s Venice
In James’s The Aspern Papers, an American uses “duplicity” to access a palazzo. Fortunately, there are easier ways to discover the writer’s beloved Venice.
Lady Murasaki’s Kyoto
A thousand years ago, Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji, the world’s first novel. Who was she?