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By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “Ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. The first book I ever received as a gift was “Trixie Belden and The Red Trailer Mystery.” Arthur, my best friend, gave it to me for...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. On April 19, 1909, in the village of Tabriz, a 24-year-old American, Howard Baskerville, a recent Princeton graduate who had gone to...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Thomas Wolfe wrote, in a novel posthumously published in 1940, “You Can’t Go Home Again,” about an author who writes about his...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “It was three against one, at least,” Tucker Carlson observed in a text message obtained by the New York Times which had been...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “To a tourist, these towns look as peaceful as a postcard picture,” “Peyton Place” author Grace Metalious once said. “But if you go...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. As Ramadan was coming to a close this week I found myself thinking of people who have touched my life, including some whom I did not...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Over 20 years ago a friend returned from London with a gift, a signed copy of the British edition of Edward Said’s memoir, “Out of...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. The Nashville Covenant School massacre, the 131st mass shooting in America this year, has rightly outraged most Americans. Cries...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “Listen!” we are commanded. “I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “Palestinian activists have long supported the Black people’s struggle against racism,” Angela Davis, Black American academic and...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “In Los Angeles, [migrant] children stitch “Made in America” tags into J. Crew shirts,” the New York Timesreports. “They bake dinner...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I remember the first time I visited the Parthenon. I was new to Greece and was invited to a late-night dinner in Plaka, an Athenian...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Recently, as I was celebrating yet another birthday, I was reminded of Howard Thurman’s observation that “The years, the months, the...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. This week an arc bent toward justice in Boston Common, where a 20’ tall bronze sculpture was unveiled to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices,” English philosopher and Franciscan friar Roger...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Only one pro football player has ever died on an NFL field. On Oct. 24, 1971, Chuck Hughes, a 28-year-old wide receiver for the...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I have wanted, as did poet Mary Oliver, to keep a distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. I have tried, I...