Film
Mariel Hemingway and Ben Cross star in Steal the Sky, a 1988 HBO film of romance and high-stakes espionage. This forgotten film follows the true story of a Cold War pilot defection.
Paris
A lifetime of memories, history, and photography has bound me to Paris in ways that are entirely my own.
Scotland
Glasgow did not overwhelm me immediately. Instead, through its bridges, blue-hour streets, universities, museums, and industrial history, it gradually revealed itself as one of the most distinctive cities I encountered in Scotland.
Travel
Inverness sits in the shadow of Culloden, where the Highlands suffered one of the defining defeats in Scottish history. Yet what I found there was not a city burdened by loss, but one animated by music, books, memory, and a quiet sense of pride.
Memory
Photographed by some of fashion's greatest names, Stella Tennant was known for her distinctive beauty and style. What I remember most, however, was her quiet elegance, understated manner, and unmistakable Scottish accent.
TV
On the surface, The Americans is a Cold War spy thriller about two KGB agents living undercover in suburban Washington. In the end, it is the relationships—not the espionage—that make the series unforgettable.
Travel
Moving past the classic postcards, my camera found a different Paris in December 2015. Outside the Bataclan and across the squares, a resilient city was pausing to mourn, remember, and keep moving forward.
Travel
I came to Auschwitz not as a historian or photographer, but as a son. Walking through Birkenau in 2025, I confronted memory, loss, and the responsibility to remember.
Film
A brief scene in A Little Romance introduced me to the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. Nearly fifty years later, that small arch between the Louvre and the Tuileries remains one of my favorite places in Paris.
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The Musée Nissim de Camondo is one of Paris's most beautiful house museums. Behind its extraordinary collection of French decorative arts lies a tragic family story that ended in Auschwitz.
The Longest Journey of My Life For most of my life, Australia and New Zealand felt almost theoretical — names at the bottom of the map, separated from my daily reality by oceans and time zones. I had traveled far before, but never that far. The idea of seventeen hours in
The Honourable Woman is a 2014 British political spy thriller written and directed by Hugo Blick for the BBC and SundanceTV. It is among the best television series I have seen. Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Nessa Stein, a London heiress whose late father was a major arms manufacturer and committed
The last military order personally signed by Adolf Hitler is a remarkable historical document. Written as Berlin fell to Soviet forces, it reveals how Hitler viewed himself even as the Third Reich was collapsing around him.
For many viewers, Robert Clary will always be Corporal LeBeau from Hogan’s Heroes. Behind the laughter, however, was a Holocaust survivor who lost nearly his entire family and spent decades ensuring that the stories of victims and survivors would not be forgotten.
Can artificial intelligence help restore identities lost during the Holocaust? From Numbers to Names, created by Google engineer Daniel Patt, uses facial recognition technology to connect Holocaust victims and survivors with photographs scattered across historical archives.
Places that have stayed with me.
I had flown from Washington Dulles through Iceland, and by the time I reached Glasgow I wasn’t hungry so much as determined — determined to stay awake until a reasonable bedtime and reset my clock. Late afternoon I finally hit a wall, and hunger arrived all at once. Most restaurants
In 2014, I stumbled across Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light. The author, David Downie, is an American who has lived in Paris since 1986. He loves Paris deeply and knows it far better than I do. Downie likes to walk and so do I. His book is
During World War II, Switzerland maintained extensive and highly profitable economic ties with Nazi Germany — ties that its own parliament would eventually commission a landmark inquiry to investigate. The Bergier Commission: The Swiss parliament's independent inquiry, the Bergier Commission, conducted the most comprehensive study of Swiss relations with
For 135 years, the Concordia Club stood at the center of Jewish social life in Pittsburgh. My father worked there for many years, and as a teenager I took ballroom dance lessons in its elegant ballroom.
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