The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
Richard Wright’s recently published The Man Who Who Lived Underground, (2021),was itself buried for years in the catacombs of Yale’s …
Category Archives: Fiction
Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel. …
The Road – Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral …
The Backwash of War — Ellen LaMotte
It is a rare event for a woman to write of war. Until WWI possibly none. Though women have been …
War As It Is – Gert Ledig’s German War Fiction: The Stalin Organ, and Payback
Gert Ledig was of the generation of German writers who fought in World War II and lived to write about …
Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace …
Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy
Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy (the pseudonym for Rose Allatini) was not only one of the first novels to …
Macho! by Victor Villaseñor
Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, (1973) was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from …
James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your …
Mottled Dawn – Stories and Sketches of the Partition of India
There are wars known, and wars unknown –except to those who lost loved ones, homes and futures. The two world …
The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule
The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly …
The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone
In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in …