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  • Key West, Summer ’13

  • The Shanghai Factor

    The Shanghai Factor

    The Shanghai FactorCharles McCarry; Mysterious Press 2013 This read like a manuscript from 1975 with ‘Vietnam’ replaced by ‘Afghanistan’ and a few passing references to cell phones added to make it feel contemporary. If we are meant to care any more for the bland, patrician, quietly psychotic main character than any of the flat, unmotivated supporting…

  • The Way of the Knife

    The Way of the Knife

    The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the EarthMark Mazzetti; Penguin 2013   

  • Sunset & Liberty

    Sunset & Liberty, originally uploaded by micahcraig.

  • The Signal and the Noise

    The Signal and the Noise

    The signal and the noise: why most predictions fail but some don’tNate Silver; Penguin Press 2012   The Boston Red Sox failed to make the playoffs in 2011 despite having a 99.7 percent chance of doing so at one point27—although I wouldn’t question anyone who says the normal laws of probability don’t apply when it…

  • Rome

    The Pantheon St. Peter’s The Vatican Museums Palatino

  • Malta Highlights

    The history of Malta runs way deeper than I had known before getting there, though I’d sort of purposefully under-researched the trip beforehand. I’d known a little about the WWII period, when it was critical in the Brits’ supply lines into North Africa, and the Italians and the Germans bombed it nearly flat, and a…

  • Il Duomo

  • Florence by the water

    Untitled, originally uploaded by micahcraig.

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