On the night of 27 March 1943 a group of men in borrowed police uniforms talked their way into the Amsterdam population registry on the Plantage Kerklaan, a former concert hall across from the zoo. They overpowered the guards, moved […]
Two things happened to American cities in the same twenty-year stretch, using the same federal money, the same engineering confidence, and in more than one case the same construction crews. One got the streams. The other got the streets. Both […]
We leave a little before half past seven, with maybe twenty minutes of real light left before the sun actually goes down at 7:39 — gold enough that the sidewalk cracks throw shadows, cool enough that Dog isn't panting before […]
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