I
Disposable Cities
San Zenone degli Ezzelini
Escaping East
Lead, Kindly Light
An Island of Strangers
Vanishing Act
Jumeirah Janes
Mina Zayed
The Foreign Correspondent
Wanted Man
Sehnsucht
Stopover
The Return
Home After Five Years
Infidelity
Flying on New Year’s Eve
The Promised Land
II
A Kind of Love
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The Translator
Forward March
The Carpet that Wouldn’t Fly
This Most Serene Republic
Auroville
Mounting Mileage
Feast of the Sacrifice
Postcard from the Cape
Through the Rockies
Brief Encounters of the Hopeless Kind
In the Shadow of Monadnock
In the Catskills
III
The Other Achilles
Atticus
Patience
The Crisis of the Third Century
The Pagan’s Lament
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
Acknowledgements
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