A Letter Addressed to Madame Voisin
A letter addressed to Madame Voisin, a 17th-century fortune-teller/witch/poisoner. A young woman begs Voisin to cast a spell on her beloved so he will fall in love with her. Letters at the time were all of one piece. Writers folded their letters to create envelopes...
Home Is Where the Baguettes Are
I have the same routine every Sunday morning when I’m at “La Petite Maison,” our little house in the hillsides of Aix-en-Provence. The sun wakes me up as it climbs over horizon and into the bedroom windows. I linger for awhile and wonder whether I really, truly want...
Publishers Weekly Starred Review!
Tucker (Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Science Revolution) vividly brings to life a slice of Parisian history in this rigorously researched true-crime epic, set during the reign of Louis XIV.
Place Matters
I have always loved maps. As a child, a tattered Rand McNally book of maps was all that I needed to entertain me on family road trips. I liked to track where we were heading, where we had been, and all of the places we had yet to be. I also marveled at how a simple...
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