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Reading Robert Alter: The Psalms and the Wisdom Books
Over the past year I have read two of Robert Alter 's remarkable translations of the Hebrew Bible: The Book of Psalms and, more recen...
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
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Senatus Populusque Romanus The Senate and People of Rome Some of the soldiers I served with in Iraq talked about getting an SPQR tat...
He is such a handsome young man. Is he doing any better? My heart aches for him and you, his foster parents who tried so hard. I really admire your efforts.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much. It is a difficult situation. In an odd way, my wife and I are better prepared for it than most people we know. The risks we take have led us both to failure. Most people don't know the feeling of big, public failure. We know our next adoption is set up to go bad.
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