A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.Anna Funder
The West has been so eager to win the cold war it didn't realize the extent to which it could lose the peace.Anna Funder
But is there any place, she wonders, so ruined that the speculative gaze of history can't make it yield some secret life?Anna Funder
Everyone likes a winner. But no one, it seems, likes them so much as those who have just lost everything.Anna Funder
Rostock, she thinks, looks just like any other place. But there's always something, she knows, that gives it away. You just have to keep looking.Anna Funder