Air-raids, looting, oral histories–and a lesson about Wikipedia
In Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik’s excellent book about his time as an American living in Paris, he has a chapter on how French people whom he interviewed (he’s a writer for the...
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Dispatches from a bar in The Hague, The Netherlands, international city of peace, justice, and other warm-fuzzies we love
I can’t say my summer job lends itself as easy to parody as Nicola’s (an excellent post). I have spent the past month and a half now (on USP money, thanks, Tori) doing sundry...
Greetings from the Explosion City
After a splendid, two-week vacation in China and some time recuperating from having a wisdom tooth extracted, I’m now in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I spend my says (six of them a week), in...
