A few months ago, while wandering around the used-book section at Amazon.com, I took note of a very cheap, out-of-print tome about London. Penned more than 60 years earlier, it was surely not up to date. The capital of England has changed a...
“Do not speak badly of the dead.” So we are told by the ancient Greek scribe Diogenes Laertius. These are wise words, and in general I try to adhere to them. But I wonder whether Diogenes ever came across a man so worthy of...
I had attended a baseball game (Samsung Lions vs. LG Twins) with my friend Nam-Il during the summer of 2011, and he asked me to join him at a movie six months later. Which one? He said that was up to me. A different friend recommended Mission...
While having coffee with colleagues after lunch recently, one of them expressed puzzlement as to why I would be reading the biography of a man, Samuel Johnson, who lived more than 250 years ago. In point of fact, I have read books going...
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