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Hospitality

All Abroad

by Chris Marker,

From Le Dépays, which was published in May by Film Desk Books. You’re returning from Hong Kong, oyster of the hundred thousand pearls, and from the very first train (the…

Operation Dessert Storm

From source material quoted by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, an eleventh-century scholar, in his humorous survey of Islamic scholarship concerning uninvited guests. Selections from the Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq, abridged and translated…

Gasthof zur Muldentalsperre

Art by Peter Doig,

A writer’s gift

by George Plimpton,

A writer’s gift

by George Plimpton,

Germaine Greer waves good-bye

by Germaine Greer,

Readings

by James L. Stanfield,

Guests and hosts

by Lewis Nordan,

Obeying the rules of hospitality can be excruciating if you are scrupulous about it

Don’t hurry back . . .

by Harper’s Staff,

On weekend guests

by Russell Lynes,

Taking the hospital out of hospitality

by Burges Johnson,

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