Jeremy HildrethCategory Archives: Wall Street Journal
Perm-36: Party in the Gulag
I went with Oliver. I always go with Oliver, in Russia at least. Three of the four trips — grand adventures, really — I’ve been on in Russia have been shared with Oliver. First, in 2001, it was St. Petersburg. Last year it was Kaliningrad. This time it was Perm, a top-ten Russian city I’d [...]
A museum with a deep sense of place
This week The Wall Street Journal ran my story about the adored and adorable Pitt Rivers museum of ethnography and world archeology in Oxford, England (as opposed, I guess, to Oxford, Mississippi). You can read it here. For length, they did cut an anecdote about my first visit: It was 2002, and I was just starting a [...]
The tell-tale moai
For The Wall Street Journal, Jeremy communes with the moai of Easter Island.
Globalization at its finest
The Wall Street Journal solicited my Yank-in-London’s take on this other Yank in London, cricket upstart and all-hat/all-fur-coat (depending on whose English you’re speaking) Sir Allen Stanford. I collaborated with my friend Malcolm Bracken who knows a thing or two about cricket. Together we wrote: “The tale of Allen Stanford — Texas billionaire, cricket enthusiast, [...]
Thrilling cities, James Bond, and me
As a kid, I watched all the James Bond movies. And since I didn’t travel beyond the country of my birth until my late 20s, the films’ depictions of places made a big and romantic impact on me. Many of the places featured in Bond films — from the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul (“From Russia [...]
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