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Losing Trust in the World
November 12, 2009 - Robert Leiter

Whenever the topic of torture and the mistreatment of prisoners is revisited in the media, as it has recently with President Obama's hesitance over closing Guantanamo Bay, my mind returns to the most powerful piece of writing on the subject that I've ever run across.

No 'Squares' on the Square
But that was then, this is now; today's Rittenhouse belongs to everyone
November 5, 2009 - Robert Leiter

When I was a child, there was no locale in this city that represented White Anglo-Saxon Protestant privilege more than Rittenhouse Square.

For the Love of Music
The story of survivor Lev Aronson and his beloved cello
October 29, 2009 - Robert Leiter

The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson. Its sounds like the title of one of those wistful, purposely sentimental novels that seem to be pouring out of publishing houses by the barrel-full these days.

Captured on Film ...
October 22, 2009 - Robert Leiter

The deep divide between the East and West Coast artistic communities was an undeniable fact of 20th-century creative life in America and was apparent in the realm of literature -- poetry, especially -- and was also at play in the field of photography.

Little Gems
October 15, 2009 - Robert Leiter

Of Israeli novelist Yoel Hoffmann's delicate, unorthodox writing, several things can definitively be said.

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