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16 Christian Caryl is author of Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century (2013), and dozens of insightful pieces of political journalism; see, e.g., “The young and the restless,” Foreign Policy, February 17, 2014; and “Putin: During and after Sochi,” New York Review of Books, April 3, 2014.

18 For more background on the shifts in Cuba’s official stance regarding religion, see Rone Tempest, “Pope meets with Castro, agrees to a Cuba visit,” Los Angeles Times, November 20, 1996; and Marc Frank, “Cuba’s atheist Castro brothers open doors to Church and popes,” Reuters, September 7, 2015.

18 I reminisce about my Cuban New Year’s Eve party at greater length in my article “Hot night in Havana,” Food & Wine, January 2002.

22 See Robert S. McNamara and Brian Van De Mark, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (1996).

24 The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum continues to welcome visitors; its website is at http://www.jmuseum.lt.

24 The quote from John Ruskin (“It is merely being ‘sent’ to a place . . .”) appears in the essay “The moral of landscape,” anthologized in The Works of John Ruskin, Vol. 5 (1904), pages 370–71.

25 The quote from E. M. Forster (“When I got away, I could get on with it”) comes from an interview by P. N. Furbank and F. J. H. Haskell, “E. M. Forster: The art of fiction no. 1,” Paris Review, Spring 1953.

25 The quote from Samuel Johnson (“All travel has its advantages . . .”) occurs in Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1887).

27 The “paper architects” were the subject of my article “Paper tsars,” Harpers & Queen, February 1990.

29 Walter Pater’s advice can be found in the “Conclusion” to The Renaissance and appears on page 60 of Selected Writings of Walter Pater (1974).

29 Zhou Enlai’s quip about the French Revolution is disputed, but is nonetheless “a misunderstanding that was too delicious to invite correction”; see Richard McGregor, “Zhou’s cryptic caution lost in translation,” Financial Times, June 10, 2011.

32 See Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001); and Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012).

33 For a recent tally of countries permitting same-sex marriage, see Freedom to Marry, “The freedom to marry internationally,” Freedom to Marry, 2015.

33 For an up-to-date summary of overseas legislation pertaining to homosexuality, see International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, “The lesbian, gay and bisexual map of world laws,” ILGBTIA, May 2015.

34 News coverage of my wedding includes Eric Pfanner, “Vows: Andrew Solomon and John Habich,” New York Times, July 8, 2007; Laurie Arendt, “A toast to her brother,” Ozaukee Press, September 30, 2007; and Geordie Greig, “My big fab gay wedding,” Tatler, October 2007.

34 For a report of the UN sessions on abuses committed by terrorists against gays, see Lucy Westcott, “Gay refugees addresses [sic] U.N. Security Council in historic meeting on LGBT rights,” Newsweek, August 25, 2015.

34 Terrorist atrocities against gay people in Syria and Iraq are documented in James Rush, “Images emerge of ‘gay’ man ‘thrown from building by Isis militants before he is stoned to death after surviving fall,’ ” Independent, February 3, 2015; and Jamie Dettmer, “The ISIS hug of death for gays,” Daily Beast, April 24, 2015.

35 The execution of Makwan Moloudzadeh is reported in British Broadcasting Corporation, “Iranian hanged after verdict stay,” BBC News, December 6, 2007.

35 For background on the charges against twenty-six men arrested in a raid on a Cairo bathhouse, see John McManus, “Egypt court clears men accused of bathhouse ‘debauchery,’ ” BBC News, January 12, 2015.

35 The arrest of guests at a gay wedding in Egypt is reported in British Broadcasting Corporation, “Egypt cuts ‘gay wedding video’ jail terms,” BBC News, December 27, 2014.

35 A Saudi Arabian court’s draconian 2007 sentence of two men for sodomy is reported in Doug Ireland, “7000 lashes for sodomy,” Gay City News, October 11, 2007.

35 On the deplorable situation in Russia, see Tanya Cooper, “License to harm: Violence and harassment against LGBT people and activists in Russia,” Human Rights Watch, December 15, 2014.