The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy

6/9/2011

Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25 …

Every Man Dies Alone — Hans Fallada, Germany 1947

4/7/2011

No less than Primo Levi, Herman Hesse and Thomas Mann have sung the praises of Hans Fallada, the novelist who …

3/20/2011

Sort of by accident, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, we went to see Garbo: The Spy, a 2009 documentary and …

1/28/2011

I’ve been reading — actually, listening to– Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War for a week, during commute times, …

1/19/2011

I’ve been amazed in reading James Bradley’s Imperial Cruise to discover how pervasive racial theories dominated political thought and action …

11/17/2010

One of the great pleasures of going to the annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association [ALTA] is the …

11/10/2010

Seeing the smoking wasteland of Hiroshima, particularly the blasted home and shredded family of a friend immediately after the Bomb …