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Aphrodite's Breath: A memoir by Susan Johnson

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June 2023, no. 454
Jacqueline Kent reviews 'Aphrodite’s Breath: A memoir' by Susan Johnson

'Who hasn’t longed to run away?’ asks Susan Johnson at the beginning of this memoir-cum-travel book about her time on the Greek island of Kythera. It is a question that invites a show of hands. Fewer people, however, might be inclined to bring their mothers with them. 

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'Letter from Athens' by Scott McCulloch

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August 2015, no. 373

Behind Omonoia Square I check into a cheap hotel, one that mainly sleeps prostitutes and their customers. The receptionist is worn – nicotine fingers, few teeth, sharp cheekbones, gaunt features. His flesh is as green as old tattoos. Leading me down the dank hallway, he lifts up his G-Star Raw T-shirt and scratches a large tattoo of a skull heaving angels from its ...

The Demons of Athens by Vrasidas Karalis

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April 2015, no. 370
Kathryn Koromilas reviews 'The Demons of Athens' by Vrasidas Karalis

Sing, O muse, of the rage of the daemons, soulless sons of Hellenes, that have brought countless ills upon the Greeks. Sing, O Vrasidas Karalis of your descent into the Greek inferno and of the quarrels that have plagued our citizens. Sing, O brave soul, sing your reports from the Great Devastation.

Forgive my classicist sentimentality. How else to begin a r ...