Destination: Berlin
The past of this eternally youthful "city of the world" is captured in the work of journalist Joseph Roth, author John le Carr
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Destination: Washington, D.C.
Our famously divided capital has produced novels about white people in power and novels about everyone else. Explore the best of both worlds with Henry Adams and George Pelecanos.
Monday, Aug 14, 2006 11:11 AM UTCEntertainment Crime
Destination: Montreal
Allow Leonard Cohen and Mordecai Richler to show you Canada's most prized -- and sublimely permissive -- city.
Thursday, Aug 10, 2006 11:09 AM UTC 27Entertainment Canada
Destination: China
To understand the last century of this vast Far Eastern country, look to the moving stories of Lu Xun, a celebrated memoir of the Cultural Revolution and an engaging, concise history.
Monday, Aug 7, 2006 12:00 PM UTCEntertainment China
Destination: Jersey Shore
Bruce Springsteen may provide the soundtrack to your boardwalk stroll, but great novels by Richard Ford and Frederick Reiken should keep you company on the beach.
Thursday, Aug 3, 2006 12:00 PM UTCEntertainment
Destination: West Texas
Explore the plains and panhandle of the Lone Star State with the help of Jim Thompson, Larry McMurtry and Dagoberto Gilb.
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Destination: Southwestern France
Skip Provence and head west to Gascony, where the weight of history is felt at every turn, and the food will blow your mind.
Thursday, Jul 27, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 10Entertainment France
Destination: Wyoming
Wide open space dotted with the occasional rodeo and watering hole -- you'll need more than Annie Proulx to make it through the long winter here.
Monday, Jul 24, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 12Entertainment
Destination: New Guinea
Mysteries of these lush, exotic South Pacific islands are revealed by a horny anthropologist, a stricken war veteran and a curious young novelist.
Thursday, Jul 20, 2006 12:00 PM UTCEntertainment
Destination: New Mexico
This state's beauty and brutality are reflected in its literature, from the chronicle of explorer Cabeza de Vaca to Cormac McCarthy's masterly westerns to a history of the atomic bomb.
Monday, Jul 17, 2006 11:00 AM UTC 12Entertainment
Destination: Armenia
Discover the former Soviet Union's smallest republic through its fantastic national epic, an exceptional memoir and a love letter from a great Russian poet.
Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 12:00 PM UTCEntertainment
Destination: Mexico
In this place where the bizarre is banal and nothing is quite what it seems, it's no surprise that the literature will blow your mind.
Monday, Jul 10, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 15Entertainment
Destination: Nebraska
When you're driving cross-country, get off the interstate and discover the plains and towns that have inspired some fine contemporary writers.
Thursday, Jul 6, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 16Entertainment
Destination: Brooklyn
From Betty Smith to Jonathan Lethem to Truman Capote, the chroniclers of this brownstone-lined borough are as diverse as the millions of people who live there.
Monday, Jul 3, 2006 1:00 PM UTC 14Entertainment
Destination: New England
This stern landscape spawned the first titans of American literature -- and the obsessions with religion, race and guilty sex that still haunt us.
Thursday, Jun 29, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 18Entertainment
Destination: Venice
Get to the city of canals before it disappears -- and don't forget to grab Calvino, James and, of course, Thomas Mann.
Monday, Jun 26, 2006 1:00 PM UTC 17Entertainment
Destination: Central Asia
Secrets of "the 'stans," lands of raw beauty and uninspiring governments, revealed with help from a Kyrgyz novelist and an expert on militant Islam.
Thursday, Jun 22, 2006 12:00 PM UTCEntertainment
Destination: Miami
Crockett and Tubbs can't match Joan Didion and T.D. Allman when it comes to exposing the shadowy side of South Florida.
Monday, Jun 19, 2006 1:00 PM UTCEntertainment
What is the Literary Guide to the World?
Looking for the best novel about Zimbabwe? Or just want to take a virtual trip to Martha's Vineyard? On this literary journey, everything is first-class.
Thursday, Jun 15, 2006 12:05 PM UTC 24Entertainment
Destination: Arizona
Look beyond the sprawl and congestion of this desert state with books from Wallace Stegner, Geronimo and Barbara Kingsolver -- and an unlikely guide to the Grand Canyon.
Thursday, Jun 15, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 17Entertainment Environment
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