At one of the spacious, French-built Metro stops in Mexico City in the northern suburbs, a crowd descends at certain hours of the day looking like a band of earthquake victims with their bundles of …
June 15, 2026
Osborne is a British novelist who wrote feature stories for the Reader from 1992 to 1994.
Articles by Lawrence Osborne
Bus ride from Mexico City to Tijuana – we suffer with equanimity
Mount Soledad homeowners open their houses to snoopy writer
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
October 31, 2025
Some people like the emptiness of Anza Borrego
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
October 24, 2025
San Diego foodies will eat brains
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
October 22, 2025
Novelist Lawrence Osborne wrote all about San Diego – part 1
Lawrence Osborne is a British novelist who wrote feature stories for the Reader from 1992 to 1994.His novels include The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark, Beautiful Animals, Ana Malina.Only …
October 20, 2025
Tomato people say that tomatoes have 'no legs'
San Diego's best tomato breeds: Better Boys, Early Girls, Yellow Taxis The ripe round red tomato sitting on the kitchen table is alive and busy. While we are asking, “How shall I eat it?” the …
August 7, 2023
Behind the Coronado Cays fantasy
Coronado Cays villages have a distinctly nervous feel When you turn off the road, past the uniformed fellow in his guard house and through one of the several wide gates, you have the impression of …
November 13, 2022
San Diego's ostrich ranchers
Long-necked bonanza We had reached our first destination, about two miles due west of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, the semirural home of a pediatric dentist who’s been raising ostriches as a sideline for …
August 22, 2022
Realist art by David Baze
A little bit warped and kind of sexy "My clue was Caravaggio. He was thoroughly trounced for using Christ and religious figures in his paintings. He didn’t paint them in the clothing and rooms of …
August 21, 2022