Further
cuttings


The sheer randomn nature of feature-writing delights me. Recent articles have ranged from cloning to clowning, exorcism to eco-terrorism, and Finnish tango to flirtation classes (not so different, really).


Italy
Daily


Judging a book by its cover
Roman Bookbinder, Daniela Bevilacqua, 79, puts pages together the old-fashioned way

Spray away on the walls and the web
Internet grafitti gallery has a preservationist role

Rome's Papal Highway
The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. And for the Via Giulia, the result couldn’t be more charming.


Daily
Mail


City guide snippets
Art Deco style blooms alongside animal sacrifice, drug smugglers drift by beaches covered with sunburnt families. Underneath that clubland veneer, things still disappear in the Everglades.

Battle of the Theme Parks
Walt Disney World Resort, the mouse-king of Florida tourism, is losing ground to Universal Entertainment.


Oxford
Mail


Camp David
It's not an easy life, but he wouldn't trade those shining moments, where his eccentricity dazzles and his voice blazes over the microphone.

Troubled Bridge over water
The river is off-limits, but we need to innovate to keep the silliness of Oxford's May morning alive

Wild child Caravaggio
Assaulting policemen, stabbing with a sword and once throwing a plate of artichokes at a waiter, Caravaggio was the Liam Gallagher of the seventeenth century.


Oxford
Times


The Temp
She was careful to add depth and gravity to The Temp "I didn't want it to be another 'chick lite' book," Serena admits. And it isn't. The giddiness descends into trauma, followed by an intricate revenge, like a Greek drama.


AAR Society
of Fellows
 


Voluptuous Italy shows expatriates how to weather the war
Reports circulate of attacks on the American Embassy here – white powder, tunnels – like whispers from a war correspondent’s dreams... Each moment becomes more precious for the threat, and more spiced with delicious disobedience because we ignore the news and drink until dawn. If this continues, we’ll all start writing like Ernest Hemingway.


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