Company K — Americans in France, WW I
William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …
Category Archives: Books
Bringing Mulligan Back Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Dale Maharidge is the author of two well regarded books of nonfiction. The second, And Their Children After Them, following …
Leaping Linguals! Everything is Understood!
Just about my favorite place to be in the world –or in time– is at the annual conference of the …
Afghan Landays — Women in the Shadows
In my dream I was the president. When I awoke, I was the beggar of the world. Ashaba, an …
The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th
The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades. I spent a very fruitful year in …
Why Do Underdogs Fight? Malcolm Gladwell Wonders…
Malcolm Gladwell, a hunter-gatherer of human behavior, and about as well known a writer as one could be, appeared at …
The Enormous Room — ee cummings
The Enormous Room by ee cumings, known and loved far and wide for his playful erotic, anarchic, love-full, meaning-full poems, …
“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
Twigs — by Taha Muhammad Ali
As I contemplate yet another birthday, this, one of the famous ‘ends in zero’ years, I thought I’d post perhaps …
Nixon and Kissinger: The Blood Keeps Seeping
I’ve been reading Daniel Ellsberg’s Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers to be reminded again of the …
Properties of Light — A Novel of Science and Sorrow
Being intrigued by the mysteries of physics, especially the exotic regions of quantum mechanics, does not mean understanding an iota …
i sing of Olaf glad and big — ee cummings
I’ve been reconnecting lately with friends who were resisters to the war in Vietnam, some as organizers, some who went …