Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 — Milton Mayer
29 Oct 2021Milton Mayer’s They Thought They Were Free, had long been on my reading list. By unhappy coincidence this turned out…
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Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup, and other Slave Narratives
23 Oct 2021Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, published in 1854, was somewhat of a sensation that year, selling over 30,000…
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The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
25 Sep 2021Richard Wright’s recently published The Man Who Who Lived Underground, (2021),was itself buried for years in the catacombs of Yale’s…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
18 Sep 2021The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel. …
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Black Boy – Richard Wright
27 Aug 2021It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it…
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Begin Again – Eddie S. Glaude Jr
11 Aug 2021Eddie Glaude Jr. is one of a vital new wave of Black American writers¹. Though he primarily writes of religion…
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The Road – Vasily Grossman
16 Jul 2021Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral…
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story – by Michael Lewis
15 Jul 2021Michael Lewis, one of the best writers of creative non-fiction since John McPhee invented the genre has followed his eye-opening…
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The Backwash of War — Ellen LaMotte
02 Jul 2021It is a rare event for a woman to write of war. Until WWI possibly none. Though women have been…
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Exterminate All the Brutes – Sven Lindqvist
26 Jun 2021Sven Lindqvist begins his short, vital, disturbing Exterminate All The Brutes with the words, “You already know enough. So do…
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Unworthy Republic
23 Jun 2021History, as taught to children, throughout the world, is primarily a means of instilling national pride. What if, instead, its…
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War As It Is – Gert Ledig’s German War Fiction: The Stalin Organ, and Payback
18 Jun 2021Gert Ledig was of the generation of German writers who fought in World War II and lived to write about…
