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by | Sep 22, 2024

A Refiner’s Fire: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, 33) By Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly Press,…

by | Aug 18, 2024

I have read about the Coliseum of Rome since I was a pre-teen interested in Roman history and civilization. I…

by | Aug 17, 2024

Older and more mature now, in matters of the heart I have come to the same conclusion as Dave Barry,…

by | Jun 12, 2024

You’ve almost surely seen the famous photograph taken from space of the Koreas at night. North Korea is almost totally…

by | Apr 29, 2024

Dictators rarely have happy, quiet deaths surrounded by family and friends after a long, happy life. Instead, death tends to…

by | Mar 5, 2024

You might be forgiven for assuming that Italy, the cradle of Catholicism and Western Christianity more broadly, is a Christian…

by | Feb 5, 2024

When we think of Rome in the ancient world, we tend to think of the massive military empire that eventually…

by | Nov 6, 2023

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World By Richard Cockett (Yale University Press, 464 pages, $35) A…

by | Oct 15, 2023

For someone who campaigned and was largely elected on the basis of putting an end to the illegal arrival of migrant…

by | Oct 13, 2023

Wandering through Life: A Memoir By Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly Press, 193 pages, $26) When a writer charms, instructs, amuses,…

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