Hongkong seems very quiet, but outsiders do not know whether the Chinese who live here are comfortable or not.Men communicate their thoughts and feelings through writing, yet most Chinese nowadays are still unable to express themselves this way. This . . .
They say that as long as you remain curious, you stay young. If that’s true, I’ve lost several decades and am seventeen again—the age when last I saw Sister Margaret-Mary, who was then thirteen and known as Meg. We probably . . .
What happens if you are born in the latter part of the twentieth century in America and find your most personal reflection, the mirror of your inner self, in music created on another continent more than a century or two . . .
I began reading Eduardo Galeano when I arrived in Mexico for the first time—it was 1973—and met Cedric Belfrage, whose translation of Open Veins of Latin America had just been published. Open Veins was a treatise on history and political . . .
