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Thursday, February 6, 2025

New Friend, New List of Favorite Books

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Joseph Brodsky around 1970.  A new friend here in Panama, a cyclist, Yogi, and round-the-world-sailor named Roger, asked me for a list of bo...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Terrorists as Celebrities

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In the remote resort town of Boquete in western Panama is a lovely little open-air Italian restaurant.  On the wall are picture of the owner...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

"War" by Sebastian Junger--Reading the Book 15 Years After I Saw the Movie

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  In August of 2010, eight months after I returned from Iraq, I went to see the documentary  Restrepo with Jim Dao of the New York Times .*...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Tattoos are Rare in Panama

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  Sleeve tattoos like the one above are common in Panama City, Florida, not mention Philadelphia, Portland, Pittsburgh and Phoenix, but not ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

A Review of An Immense World by Ed Yong

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In the fall of 2024 I read An Immense World   with the Evolution Round Table at Franklin and Marshall College, a group I have been part of f...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Bilingual Books and the Challenge of Lifelong Learning

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More than a decade ago in a Paris bookstore I picked up French-Greek edition of The Gospel of John, Jean Evangile: traduit du grec, preface ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Levy--The World Changed The Month It Was Published

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  On September 10 of the year just passed Bernard-Henri Levy published his new book Israel Alone .  I have read several of Levy's books ...