The weather had turned warm in Istanbul. It was spring, the season after the one that sends uninviting gusts of wind off all three bodies of water that grip the city like fingers.

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...

“I didn’t move to Bandung because I wanted to live in Indonesia. I moved to Bandung because I wanted to live in Bandung.”

It was well below freezing on the Finnish coast, but there my friends and I were, frolicking outdoors near a pool whose glassy waters were a blue of almost infinite depth. Soon it...

Did you know that 10 percent of the world’s products are knockoffs — imitations of superior items? It’s such a large industry that a museum devoted entirely to the subject opened in...

January in China means the Spring Festival, the biggest holiday in the country. For most Chinese, it means heading en masse to their hometowns, and clogging the public transportation...

Jordan Romero’s Christmas was certainly a white one.

A Nordic country with a considerable chunk of its real estate above the Arctic Circle may not suggest miles of white sand beaches baking in the summer sun, but Sweden’s most...

Editor’s Note: Two weeks ago, our writer Karl Arney brought us into the world of business aficionado Wojciech Szpakowski in Zhengzhou, China. This week, we are brought into the...