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One thing I feel I always should be doing more of in this blog is pointing out the myriad curiosities of life in Japan. And yet try as I might I can never seem to find anything strange enough to warrant your attention. I’ve never found a vending machine dispense anything more interesting than an [...]

I know I promised a review of Dogs and Demons but I think that’ll take a little longer to put together so instead I’ll focus on another book I finished recently, Amin Maalouf’s In the Name of Identity. This is the first book I’ve read by Maalouf, better known in the English-speaking world as a [...]