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Iarrived in Modica by bus on a day of torrential rain. This elegant Sicilian city is divided into two main districts, upper and lower, and the bus terminal was in [...]

There's an old Michel Jonasz song I'm very fond of, in which he tells of visiting an off-season resort with his parents and sister. The place sounds like a seaside [...]

It is probably true, as Daniel Mendelsohn suggests, that most people see the critic as someone who always knows better, a sort of super-mother-in-law. Mendelsohn is a critic himself - [...]

Ihave never lived in Rome, but as a visitor I've flung myself down on far more different beds and stared at more ceilings there than I have in those Italian [...]

It's a garden full of monsters, labelled with puzzling or halfeffaced inscriptions carved in stone. Some of the inscriptions are in Italian, some in Latin. 'Every thought flies away', reads [...]

In the Ducal Palace of Mantua, the Lombard city east of Milan, there is a large chamber known as the Sala del Labirinto. Its ceiling consists of a beautiful blue-and-gold [...]

Boston is a city of contradictions and perpetual mutation, its history of migrants, mobs, puritans and prostitutes resulting in today's eclectic neighbourhoods, writes Dan Hofstadter Why is it that even [...]

It's appropriate that a huge exhibition of symbolist painting, Il Simbolismo, covering the period from Gustave Moreau to Gustav Klimt, and full of writhing nudes and femmes fatales, should have [...]

Whenever, after a long absence, I return to Naples, that beautiful and wounded city, I find myself looking forward to bedtime, to the first few moments of falling asleep. I [...]