Our Favourite Paris Cafés: Le Select
This is the second of a three-part series on our favourite writing cafés in Paris. There are a slew of […]
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What Is a Photograph?
“In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than real.” — Alfred Stieglitz Photography in
Five Flavours That Define India
When I moved to New Delhi in 2007, I knew almost nothing about Indian food. My late dad was many
Finding an Rx for the Soul
Whether one defines anxiety or depression in strictly medical terms or in the language of lay people, these two conditions
Our Favourite Paris Cafés: Café Beaubourg
This is the first of a three-part series on our favourite writing cafés in Paris. My daily routine in Paris
Breaking Out of Prison in Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens would have approved heartily of the tagline used by the 1970s comic book series Howard the Duck –
Journey to Other Realities at Toronto Pursuits
How often has a writer’s work so captured your attention that you set out to read everything they have written?
Putting Our Trust in Bashō the Pilgrim
Early in Bashō’s collection of travel sketches The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he writes, As I was plodding
Han Kang, the Language of Nature and the Nature of Language
[Editor’s note: Bring your imagination and an appetite for big, big questions in this seminar on two books by Han
Paris on the Brain: What We’re Reading and Watching Now
At Classical Pursuits we’ve got Paris on the brain as we prepare for our two 2026 tours: They Came to