Our Fair City

Click Here to Read: Our Fair City: More than a century ago, Americans could visit a simulated Jerusalem without ever leaving the country by Jenna Weissman Joselit on the Tablet website on May 26, 2021. Birdseye view of the 1904 Worlds Fair.  Image:  Gray Litho. Co. after Charles Graham Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier

Click Here to Read:  John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier – obituary: A central figure in the group that included Paul and Jane Bowles, he lived in a mud hut in the Marrakesh oasis with a Dutch baroness  on the Telegraph Obituaries May 12, 2021. 
John Hopkins (right) and Joe McPhillips (left) on ‘The White Nile Diaries’, with a white R50 BMW.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.