Gaza rebuttal: vengeance defined
My name is David Levenstein Amory, and I am a Jew. I don’t usually begin my writing with AA-style introductions, [...]
The suicide party
Apologies to my progressive Trump-hating friends who see the re-election of the former president as a step toward American fascism, [...]
Edgy days in Riga
I just returned to New York after a two-week visit to Riga, the bustling capital of Latvia. My son and [...]
How deep is the wound?
My grandfather was a German Jew who moved from a town in Lower Silesia to Toulouse, in southern France, immediately [...]
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.