Our Daily Bread: A Meditation by Predrag Matvejević
The end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943 saw one of the harshest winters of the century. In norther Germany, near Osnabrück, my father [a Russian speaker from the…
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I have a friend who has a friend who has a sister or cousin, I’m not quite clear which, who runs a cooking school in Guadalajara, Mexico. That’s only three…
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For the past several weeks I’ve been perusing John F. Richards’ The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (California, 2005). There’s a lot of it to…
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