All In One Boat

Turkey to Switzerland: Hope Drives Despair

Will Kirkland — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:45:36 +0000

As one interpretation of Pandora’s Box goes, what remains inside after all the evils are set free — hope– is …

Will Kirkland — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:45:57 +0000

Tamim Ansary, Afghan-American since childhood, and author of the very fine Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic …

Will Kirkland — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:43:27 +0000

If you live in the Bay Area and have long promised yourself to experience a Samuel Beckett play, whom you …

Will Kirkland — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:51:51 +0000

Many obituaries for Mexico’s famed novelist and social critic, Carlos Fuentes. Here is what the Washington Post writes. Mr. Fuentes …

Will Kirkland — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:45:02 +0000

The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as …

Will Kirkland — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:20:31 +0000

Paris by Cahit Külebi, translated by Vicki Tuncer and Baran Tuncer When someone mentions Paris, I think of a woman …

Will Kirkland — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:47:55 +0000

Footnote, (2011) by Israeli director Joseph Cedar promises an interesting story of father-son tension in the hermetic world of Talmudic scholarship …

Will Kirkland — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:50:29 +0000

It’s raining on the Sea of Marmara. It’s raining and cold. The warm cocoon of the ferry boat, on which …

Will Kirkland — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:59:43 +0000

In 1853 the United States was 8 years away from a civil war. Napoleon had been defeated at Waterloo only …

Will Kirkland — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:29:52 +0000

The main street of Antalya, Turkey is flooded with children dressed in red and white, or in the case of …