Latest from the Deparment of Places

Place: Botswana Safari

Lucy Corin

Jul 26 2023

FEATURES: Frogs that sound like xylophonesCompetent warthogsLuxuriating giraffes I spent a few days watching wild animals I know practically nothing ...

Place: The Atlanta Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

Leslie Carol Roberts

May 1 2023

FEATURES: Spartan roomsA writerly legacyA military legacyCold pineapple juice  When it opened its doors for the first time some seventy years ago, the Atlanta Hotel ...

Place: McDonald’s, 24th and Mission streets, San Francisco

Oscar Villalon

Dec 9 2022

FEATURES: One-dollar coffeeSeniors in berets and windbreakersA continuous, agreeable hum About twenty years ago, Mike Davis, the grand leftist excavator of Southern ...

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