How deep is the wound?
David Amory remembers his grandfather, a German Jew who was involved in the French Resistance, and contemplates the Israel-Palestine situation.
The worst of times
I was always a fan of 20th-century guidebooks, the vast Baedeker series among my favorites. This love began in my [...]
Great expectations
To be hoisted by one's own petard is an archaic if colorful little way of suggesting being burned by one's [...]
Never mind the malaria
Long before slick travel videos and multi-purpose travel apps, the Baedeker was a traveler's bible, and David Amory found a copy of Rome's 1930 version.