In the media: Article in Tablet Magazine about Jewish Košice
The New York-based online publication Tablet Magazine last Thursday published my article "In Slovakia, a Citizen’s Effort To Build a Holocaust Memoria... Continue reading →
Photo essay: Bratislava UFO bridge
Major cities have their symbols: Paris the Eiffel Tower, New York the Statue of Liberty, Moscow the Kremlin. Sometimes symbols compete for the prime s... Continue reading →
Goodbye, nostalgia: The end of post-communism in Slovakia
A huge advantage of living in a country for a few weeks is the opportunity to delve deeper into its culture than a few days' visit allows. Living in S... Continue reading →
Home is: Routines
Home emerges through routines. As I wrote in the introduction to the "What is home?" series, "Do something enough times—navigate the apartment in the ... Continue reading →
Size isn’t everything: Five things to love about Bratislava
Are you afraid to admit your only knowledge of Bratislava is that it's where Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd smuggled an East Bloc vacuum cleaner from in... Continue reading →
Crosses in Slovakia
An astute traveler quickly observes that Slovakia is a Catholic country: two-thirds of the population 'belong' to the Roman Catholic Church (I was bap... Continue reading →
Five reasons to visit Slovakia
I need no reasons to visit Slovakia. It is my homeland and it will always be home (though since I made a new home in Portland, Oregon, and am now cons... Continue reading →
Slovak microbrews: The eastern quartet
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, you can enjoy some excellent microbrewed beers in Slovakia (I hear there are now 27 microbreweries in the countr... Continue reading →
