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The Future is Now
If you’d asked me a few years ago, only a few, whether or not I ever read dystopian fiction, I…
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And Now For Something Completely Different
Take heart, readers! This post will not be yet another cry of dismay over the troubling ascendancy of Donald Trump….
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Lists
As another year draws to its close and the next one edges near, there seems to be in both the…
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O Canada
A flash of light rent the October sky, lasted a few short moments, and then vanished as quickly as it…
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The Long Walk Across Europe
In December of 1933, a young man set out from England on a great adventure. His intention was to walk…
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The Neighborhood
Can you believe it? The maple leaves are starting to turn. It seems like summer, while we’re still in the…
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Savages
On the southwestern edge of the Wiltshire Downs in England, in the valley of the River Kennet, lies the ancient…
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What Makes Them Do IT?
When I was in high school, a friend of mine presented me with a copy of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake…
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Fruits of the Earth
Nadine Gordimer died today, the great South African writer, though I had actually sat down to write about another great…
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Arrivals and Departures
The Dutch novelist, poet and journalist, Cees Nooteboom, wrote a wonderful book called Roads to Santiago. In it, the author…
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Sevastapol
I’ve always found that when I want to understand something that’s happening in Russia, it helps to hit the books….
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Death in Venice . . . California
When you think of Venice in literature, what do you think of? John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice? The novels…
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Holiday Reading
As we sit in front of the television watching football and trying to digest our Thanksgiving dinners, or attempt to…
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Road trips
Crumbling provincial towns, the Gypsy wedding of a fourteen year old, the dismal condition of the M10 which connects Petersburg…
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The Girl in the Photo
It’s that time of year again. The leaves are falling, my wormy quinces are lying under the trees waiting for…
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Boat People
So, Thanksgiving is once more upon us, the season in which where I work, little lines of boys and girls…
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Shorefront Anyone?
When I was an undergraduate at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, there was a lecturer there by…
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It’s Not a Riot Any More
The trial was over. The appeal had failed. The world’s press had gone home when last weekend, Maria Alyokina, age…
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Carcassonne: Land of the Cathars
One summer when I was about ten years old, my mother went to the library to get some novels for…