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May 5, 2025Let it never be said again that Washington, DC is a city without any native culture. The fact that its professional football team, against all odds, is at last returning to the site...
April 29, 2025Shirley Hazzard once observed that at a certain age memory protects one from the burden of experience. A vivid scene, with the interval of several decades, becomes little more than a...
January 31, 2025The grocery store a few blocks from my house in Washington, D.C. was for many years known as the Social Safeway. This tongue-in-cheek appellation referred to the fact that it was the...
January 6, 2025One of the most famous scenes in F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu takes place on a rat-infested ship. All but two of the vessel’s crew have died...
