One of my favorite songs, lyrically, is Lou Reed’s Magic and Loss. I think it really encapsulates the human condition. My favorite line is: “They say no one
The election of Barack Obama was indeed historic, and means a lot to Americans and the World in terms equality of the races. But had Clinton been elected,
It is possible that sometimes a book comes along and changes your life. In the novel Immortality, by Milan Kundera, Agnes encounters a women in the sauna who
Before I moved to Beijing, I spent three months in Shandong Province. Jinan is the most backwards village of 6 million people you can imagine. This was before
“One day in Berlin came a telegram: ‘Found a wonderful green stone. Come immediately, Zorba.” This missive comes near the end of Zorba the Greek. The idea of