Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
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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…
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Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
09 Jun 2021If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace…
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
06 May 2021The Romantic period of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly in England and of others around Europe is not normally thought of…
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Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy
27 Mar 2021Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy (the pseudonym for Rose Allatini) was not only one of the first novels to…
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Macho! by Victor Villaseñor
11 Mar 2021Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, (1973) was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from…
