ANTIQUITIES

From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past, and how our experience colors those meanings.Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Bo ys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage-...[Llegir més]