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The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright

9/25/2021

Richard 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

9/18/2021

The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel.  …

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The Road – Vasily Grossman

7/16/2021

Vasily 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 Backwash of War — Ellen LaMotte

7/2/2021

It is a rare event for a woman to write of war.  Until WWI possibly none. Though women have been …

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War As It Is – Gert Ledig’s German War Fiction: The Stalin Organ, and Payback

6/18/2021

Gert 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

6/9/2021

If 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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Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy

3/27/2021

Despised 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

3/11/2021

Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, (1973) was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from …

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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man

8/26/2020

For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your …

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Mottled Dawn – Stories and Sketches of the Partition of India

7/23/2020

There are wars known, and wars unknown –except to those who lost loved ones, homes and futures.  The two world …

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The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule

1/18/2020

  The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly …

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The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone

1/8/2020

  In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in …

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