Acknowledgments
The essays and poems in this collection previously appeared--occasionally under a different title, or in a slightly different form--in the following magazines, periodicals and newspapers.
Budapest Week: "When the Ghosts Have Bodies," "A. A.: The Extraterritorial," "Election Postscript," "The Giant Who Goes Part-Way with Me," "Elegy for the Lángos," "Looking for "Árpi Bácsi," "Hello to All That," "Waiting for Bread in Hegymagas," "Real Family Values," and "Famous for Sixteen Seconds"
The Budapest Sun: "In Praise of Anarchy," "And Their Flags Are Still There," "George Konrád: An Appreciation," "So Many Borders, So Little Interest," "This Private(ized) Life," "Here's to the Happy Hungarians!" "For Whom The Bell Tolls," "When Freedom's Just Another Word," "When History Enters The House," "Tale of Two Schools," "Primer for Hungarian Journalists," "The (Un)Wisdom of (In)Security," "Temple of Unanswered Prayers," "Weinstock Among the Living," "In Search of a Central European Metaphor: The Hanger," "Report From the Home Front," "Revenge of the Telephone," and "Visit to Majdanek."
DoubleTake: "What I Loveth Well, Remains American"
Essays in American Studies: "Je change, donc je suis..." (Eötvös Loránd University)
The Harvard Review: "In Praise of Battered Cities"
The Hungarian Quarterly: "The Allures of Exile," "On The Loneliness of Hungarians," "Magyar Naranc," and "Triumph of the Tawdry: O. J. Simpson"
The Paris Review: "A Conversation with George Konrád"
Prairie Schooner: "Visit to Majdanek," "Temple of Unanswered Prayers," and "Lukács Fürdü: December 31, 1995"
Time Magazine: "Germany: The Sins of the Fathers"