I’ve just finished reading Philippe Sands’ East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes against Humanity.” I’d come across a recommendation to this winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction prize and added…
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Here’s my 2018 reading list, as it was at the halfway mark on June 30th. That we’re now three weeks into the second half of the year testifies to my desire to augment the list…
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I’m going to post these excerpts from “my other blog” here because they’re about books and I think I’d like to keep that material together here rather than just including a link. Hope you don’t…
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Almost two months since I last published here, and before that I began this post. At first, I only got as far as drafting a title and importing the photo below. A few days later,…
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These cartoons, created for World Book Day 2018 by a host of international cartoonists, were displayed in a square we walked through in Lyon this past May. You’ll have to squint a bit to read…
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