In 1954, the literary critic terrible Leslie Fiedler called Cesare Pavese ‘the best of recent Italian novelists … and the…
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The Golden Age of Dutch art hung Ruisdael windmills and Rembrandt granaries in the gallery of our international imagination. These…
With EasyJets and internets zooming us from our living rooms into the jungles and cathedrals of foreign lands faster than…
Nations are sometimes defined by borders, but more interestingly by language. Latvia is thus defined by a language spoken by…
As the grandson of two rabbis, I knew some of my family would worry when I told them I was…
“The glum, commonplace act of love … always brought to my mind our electoral system. After enduring interminable torrents of…