The Coward

… troublesome or impolite. But the nice woman we frequently met going the other way on the path began offering them bread from the bag she took to feed the horses along the path. How do you tell someone who means well that their act of generosity is unwelcome? I’m not good at refusing gifts …

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Polish Lessons

… frustratingly ornate a style. Unfortunately, poetry was out of my reach, especially Tuwim’s beautifully titled Kwiaty Polskie (Polish Flowers), its second line containing the exquisite bottom feeder wzwyż (meaning, appropriately, “upward”). But Słonimski was also an essayist, a humanist somewhat in the style of E. B. White. I sometimes thought of the Skamander group …

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What’s Love Got to Do With It?

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Once Upon a Time in Manchester

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The Lions and the San

… San men went out hunting, three or four of them would go every 15 days or so and spend several days tracking a victim that could later feed 20 or 30 people. This kind of behavior does not make a species go extinct.
Because the San now have email, I’m in touch with a …

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Death in Yashinovka

… many months, but now things are likely over. Before he left, Menachem said, quoting a line from the Talmud: “If one is seized by ravenous hunger, they feed him even unclean things until his eyes light up. And, as Rabbi Matia ben Harash said, if one has pain in one’s throat, they may drop …

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Bird of America

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Life Is a Highway

Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background

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Crowdsourced Clairvoyance

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Then again, so do we

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The Runaway

… apparently his chief exercise was gulping down her offerings. “He’s off his color,” the woman told me when I went to retrieve Toby from her house late on Monday, after work. “Don’t feed him too much,” she cautioned, “because he’s just eaten again.” Toby looked from one to the other of us,

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