Articles
The Daily Beast
The backstory of our 2009 chat -- with previously unaired excerpts. (Story and Podcast)
March 26, 2026
The New York Times
Birgit Thyssen-Bornemisza led a life of eccentric anonymity and shabby gentility. Then her money got cut off. Then she had a stroke.
October 23, 2022. (Honored by the Silurians Press Club for Excellence in Journalism)
Air Mail
Joining the Joyceans on Bloomsday and making a sidetrip to Dalkey's "best little festival in the world."
June 8, 2024
Lucire
If only the father of Athenian democracy could tame today's oligarchs.
September 2024
The SXSW Festival returns in the flesh after three years in quarantine.
March 2022
Shedding its haunted past, Guyana looks to oil and otters for prosperity.
March 2020
...concertos, rivers of wine, an aborted Trump Tower, and a suspicious hunting accident
June 2019
...lemurs, sorcerers, pop stars, and relatives who won't stay buried.
September 2016
Avenue
"Spite walls," endless lawsuits, feces throwing, and a strategic retreat to a Tibetan monastery: the all-time ugliest renovation fights between New York neighbors
June 2021
Exploring an enclave where the famous and powerful have found peace -- and sometimes found themselves rejected.
November 2021
For more than a century, the Gruccis have been painting the night skies.
July 2020
The Wall Street Journal
May 8, 2015
November 6, 2014
Vanity Fair
April 9, 2012
March 1998
The Huffington Post
June 24, 2014
Conde Nast Traveler
July 2009
Travel + Leisure
January 19, 2016
September 2012
Fresh Toast
August 10, 2017
Yahoo! Travel
February 4, 2016
October 6, 2014
June 13, 2014
Departures
March 2005
March 2004
Talk
Spy
Esquire
Rolling Stone
November 20, 1986