His memoirs, written in an engagingly ironic tone, are good at picking through the details of Mexico's endless love/hate relationship with Gringolandia, as the people there like to call their northern neighbour.As ambassador, Mr Davidow mostly had to bear the hate.
"Today there are the great explosion novels that are popular and also the endless exquisite single relationship novels".
"He said, 'Probably all year.' " When Manager Joe Torre was asked if he thought Jeter and Rodriguez would be comfortable with the endless scrutiny their relationship will receive, he said, "They'll have to be, I guess".
Is it such a surprise that our generation's love lives are becoming characterised (at least in the popular imagination) by Tinder dates and almost-relationships? Endless internet think pieces accuse us of being uncommitted, but what are we supposed to be committed to?
The benefits from this are endless: health, sanity, relationships, productivity, peace of mind, and more.
If this is all just a performance, a way of stoking the public's endless fascination with their relationship, it's a wild feat of storytelling.
Many years later, Douglas described a relationship of endless jokes and repartee ("There were whole days we laughed our way through") and, on Wilde's side, endless kindness and tolerance.
Then I turn to Kate Christensen's debut novel In the Drink, dead-on in its portrayal of Claudia Steiner's attempts to climb out of the pit of self-absorbed employers, confused relationships and endless drinking, and I find out the author tips her hat to dead male Russian novelists more than contemporary experiences.
Unexpectedly moving in unanticipated ways, this unusual film is a look at the complexities of one specific family's story as well as a broad examination of the interlocking nature of truth, secrecy and memory, not to mention the endless intricacies of human relationships.
