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Bernie Gunther's First Gimlet
I CAME TO Philip Kerr (1956-2018) —and to his greatest creation, detective Bernhard Günther— oddly. Deliciously. It was in Madrid. During the course of a conversation over fish and wine with my friend and fellow-historian of things early modern and Spanish James Amelang, we…
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Apostles & Authoritarians
MY STUDIES OF the past put “apostolic” people, images, and themes before me. While the cultural present that surrounds me encourages the notion of an “apostle” either to fade (from its older, Judeao-Christian understandings and associations), or to become highly elastic.
Apr 3
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Vianden, in Luxembourg
A short journey by train then bus from Luxembourg is the town of Vianden. On the River Our, in the Ardennes region of northeastern Luxembourg. Upon Roman and then Carolingian foundations, Vianden Castle grew and grew between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.
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St. Anthony & the Fishes
475 steps from the door of my apartment building, in the Detroit Institute of the Arts, is an unsigned canvas attributed to Alonso Cano (1601-1667). A painter, architect and sculptor from Granada —who studied under Diego Velázquez in Sevilla— Cano made this piece for the Convent…
Mar 27
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Dunedin
SKIP IS NOWHERE to be found. But Jane’s inside. She’s teasing. “Doin’ your homework over there?” And she’s quick with her poem about the horsemen of the…
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The Empire Builder, headed west
(Our Time or Their Time?) Train dispatch no. 1
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Consolation, comeuppance, and escape
FAIRY TALES BLEND mythological pasts and present realities. And like their miniature sisters and brothers (fables and folk tales, myths and legends…
Feb 17
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On Giants
THE KNIGHT ERRANT is the hero of a romance of chivalry, a genre of literature with deeper origins, but which became wildly popular in sixteenth-century…
Feb 9
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Train to Aracataca
It was February, 1950. A young man was making his way as a writer and sometime-newspaper-columnist on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, when a woman came by…
Feb 4
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Palomar's Starlings and Benjamin's Otter
ONE OF ITALO Calvino’s (1923-1985) delightful creations is Mr. Palomar. There isn’t a stretch of horizon, a gecko’s gullet, a queue in the cheese shop…
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