Bonnie Costello’s essays have appeared in a number of literary journals, including the Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Literary Imagination, Salmagundi (forthcoming), Southern Review (listed as notable in the 2016 Best American Essays), and War, Literature & the Arts. She is professor of English (emerita) at Boston University.
A monument to poet Adam Mickiewicz. Photo: Jutta M. Jenning / Flickr
A couple finds their hired tour guide more sage for hire—like Socrates, an ambulatory pedagogue.
I saw him first from the…
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