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Heartland dispatches from a recovering coastal elite. Mostly book reviews covering history, music, movies, and occasionally politics.
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Cavafy’s Hidden Greece (opens the original)
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In my previous post, I wrote about my adventures with Ancient Greek lyric poetry and the large role played by translators. As part of my dive into modern Greek culture, I also read CP Cavafy, George Seferis, and Odysseas Elytis; the latter two are Greece’s lone Nobel laureates.What did I gain from reading this modern poetry, particularly as I seek to understand Greece in advance of my trip there?Greek national identity is a st
Where in the world is Greece? (opens the original)
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I walked by a crowded restaurant on the Mediterranean in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, and watched upper-class diners dancing at their tables, singing along to a new pop song. Initially, I thought it might be Middle Eastern music blasted by the Turkish immigrants who increasingly come to the city.But it turns out that it was a recent laïko hit. Laïko draws equally on rebetiko, the once-controversial Turkish-influenced bouzouki blues music, and Greek mainland folk music. Now set ove
Someone Will Remember Us (opens the original)
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I tend to dive into rabbit holes with my reading, often clustered around a travel destination. And I never know where they’ll take me. I had a two week trip to Greece in the beginning of September and it unexpectedly rekindled a long-dormant interest in poetry.I find that reading poetry is like a muscle, separate from other reading stamina. My ability to read poetry has atrophied since college, when I did some writing seminars and literature classes that unlocked that part of my brain.Greek poet
Notes on Constraint (opens the original)
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As I’ve alluded to elsewhere, I’m a big fan of nonfiction writer David Epstein. His second book, Range, helped give me the confidence to be a generalist. That book can be summed up by the full version of an often-clipped saying: “a jack of all trades is a master of none, but often better than a master of one.”To distill his newest book, we should skip adages and instead pick a poetic form: the haiku. Epstein lands his book on haiku as a metaphor, finding in it “a way of being, of eagerly accepti
Taxes are Community Benefits (opens the original)
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In a recent post, I looked at a law review article that talked about housing in the Midwest and the Rust Belt. I’d like to dive into a more niche issue, one that reveals how many of us have learned to over-complicate governance.The incredibly sexy issue that I want to discuss: community benefits agreements attached to tax benefits. A viral issue if there ever was one!Background:<str
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