Old Montreal
Amitav Ghosh
Le Morne Brabant, Mauritius
Le Morne Brabant marks the south-western corner of Mauritius. It is a World Heritage Site, for reasons that are explained at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Morne_Brabant
Encounters: Gore Vidal in Montreal
Encounters: Gore Vidal at Montreal Gore Vidal’s Julian is one of the finest epistolary novels I’ve ever read. Listening to him in Montreal, I reverted to the…