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Categoría: Op-Eds
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Reluctant warriors
A book by the British historian James Matthews has reminded me of some older men I knew when I was a child, as I helped them gather olives, or dig […]
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Lost heritage
Approaching Úbeda from the south, the church of San Lorenzo is hard to distinguish from the old city wall, having been built against one of its towers and out of […]
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Sunday stroll
Today I have company on my Sunday stroll in Madrid. We are dressed comfortably for walking, with biscuits and water in the knapsack. We have about an hour’s walk ahead […]
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The Stendhal vice
Natural style in writing is probably an invention of Stendhal. The master, of course, is Montaigne, but his language is now archaic and requires so many spelling modernizations and explanatory […]
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Hush, Memory
A TALL structure, vaguely temple-shaped and covered with long sheets of canvas, stands on a busy intersection right by the Atocha railway station, in downtown Madrid, where bombs planted in […]
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We Don’t Want to Be Alone
It has been an uneasy week for the citizens of Madrid. Not because we are new to the fears and destruction of terrorism. We have long known how fragile human […]