The guardians of the great Brown library, hard at work! :)

I was fortunate to be at Blue Note for his last performance, and none of us knew it would be the final one. Such a heartbreaking loss.

Thanks, Andrew.

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

Bewildered, Kishi asked, ‘Why are you giving me so much money?’ unaware of his country’s issuance of a new yen with a significantly reduced value as a counter-inflationary measure. The leaders of a vanished empire...

Satō soon arrived, taking him back to his private residence in Kichijoji and offering him a sum of ten or twenty thousand yen for his initial living expenses.

With his shaven head and tattered clothes, he was unrecognisable to the guards stationed outside, who regarded him with suspicion. Despite his repeated pleas of ‘I’m Kishi. Kishi!’ they refused him entry.

to recover both his father's and grandfather’s prolonged silence. It is prudently argued and beautifully written, culminating in a truly remarkable, poignant, exquisitely crafted, and utterly gripping story.

The narrative is replete with massacres and genocides, intricately woven with destruction and trauma, meticulously researched from private and public papers across multiple countries and languages, taking a great deal of detective work on Mazower’s part