Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category
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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 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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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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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…
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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
26 Aug 2020For 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
23 Jul 2020There 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
18 Jan 2020The 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
08 Jan 2020In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in…
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The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
19 Dec 2019One winter afternoon Comrade Tulayev, an important Party official, is shot dead. By the time The Case of Comrade…
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Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution
10 Oct 2019Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that,…
