"Oxford started as an Anglo-Saxon border outpost, with a bridge replacing the 'oxen ford' from which it takes its name. It became a center for trade and religion and developed one of the oldest univer
Garrett, who has authored literary companions to Italy and to Greece, here offers travelers to Venice some enrichment of their experience with his discussion of the history and architecture of Venice
Garrett, who has written widely on Renaissance and 19th-century literature, has lived in Cambridge since 1994, which might be considered a long time in, say, Phoenix. He looks at the university town f