As Edinburgh is to Rebus and Oxford to Morse, so New Orleans and its surroundings are to Robicheaux. The streets of the city and the bayous of the surrounding countryside are the place where James Lee Burke’s hero, a recovering drunk and a Vietnam vet, does his policing. Though I’ve never been there, Burke has […]

The Thanksgiving holiday is approaching, the skies above the United States will be crowded with planes, and the government has been looking for ways to ease congestion, according to today’s New York Times. Its answer: to let passenger aircraft use flight paths “through areas off the Atlantic coast where the Air National Guard and the […]

It’s suddenly fashionable to be an anorak, to be able to reel off how long it takes to get from London to Paris or Brussels by train. But we in the British media – our pages full of the continent-shrinking properties of the Eurostar service from St Pancras – aren’t alone in our obsession.
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