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So. The end of the world is coming any day now. Everyone you know is dying of an incurable plague. There’s a…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve almost stopped going to the movies. The only decent stuff is superhero movies, and most…

You probably know some of the best first lines in literature. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of…

What a week! I used to think social media brought out the bad in people. But I was wrong–it brings out the worst…

Last week, I translated the first part of the story of Martha the Mayoress of Novgorod by Nikolai Karamzin. A few of…

Another short post today, courtesy of my French friends, who translated my earlier short post about a French traveler watching a Russian…