Camille Bromley is a food writer and world traveler. When she's not traveling, she likes to eat culinary masterpieces, read difficult and soul-wrenching literature, and take photographs that astonish and delight. When she is traveling, she likes to do pretty much the same thing, but in comfortable shoes. She has lived in Japan and France and worked as an English teacher in schools and universities abroad.
Watching Holy Motors, French director Léos Carax’s (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, POLA X) first film in 13 years, we continually have to remind ourselves that the movie in front of us is the same as the one from 20...
Two decades ago and some change, Meg Ryan’s character, Sally Albright, in When Harry Met Sally gave the waitress of a Manhattan deli the order of a woman who knows exactly what she wants: “I’d like . . . the...
In 2009, the French photographer JR turned the favelas of Brazil and the slums of Nairobi, Kenya into public art galleries celebrating its female residents, pasting enormous photographs of winking eyes and toothy...
Prometheus, a new film by Ridley Scott, opens with soaring overhead shots of austere landscapes in chilling blacks, grays, and blues. The terrain is mysterious and cruelly beautiful, but as we approach a thunderous...
Growing up in central Illinois, my playmates and I spent our summer evenings in the new houses under construction at the fringes of our neighborhood. Our parents forbade it, fearing loose nails and unfinished...
Owls and Elephants
Eclectic jewelry wearers and boutique shoppers beware — you might find your wallet a bit slim after a trip to Louisville, Kentucky. Not because the numerous independent shops are...
When I told my Greyhound bus companions that I was headed to Louisville, they looked at me quizzically. “Louisville, Kentucky,” I repeated, pronouncing the town’s name the way the locals do—loouhvull—lips...
