A City on The Edge of Destruction
Sandbags piled high around the statue of the Duc de Richelieu in Odessa. (Scott Peterson via Getty Images)
Odessa is tattered, majestic, and still with us—for now.
Nicholas Clairmont is the life and arts editor of the Washington Examiner Magazine. He writes a weekly column on words—a recent one, about “balloonism” cited both Nietzsche and the Bolognese research physician Luigi Galvani—and is the kind of friend you turn to to ask what book you ought to read next.
So when we heard he had hopped on a plane (and car an…
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