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Luxury was a vulgar burden.
Hernan Diaz • Trust
The peaceful Dodecanese Islands, just a stone’s throw from Turkey, selectively take them in. The more upscale ones like ours are spared by what the inhabitants and summer sojourners agree—without saying it too loudly—is a plague, while the less trendy islands like Leros and Lesbos take in more than their share.
John Lambert • Yoga
On another night of searching, a centuries-old academic journal yielded a reference to a Gaspery J. Roberts. The journal had been devoted to prison reform. The hit sent Olive down a rabbit hole, at the end of which she found prison records from Earth: Gaspery J. Roberts had been sentenced to fifty years for a double homicide in Ohio in the late twe
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interlopers like Sir Edward Michelborne
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
In this derelict place, Harris allowed his soul to unfold in a poignant ode to the universe.
Phil Rosen • Life Between Moments: New York Stories
mollified,
Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
Police Chief E. Francis Riggs