War: A Head Spinning Spiral
Reading a wonderful book, Beautiful Souls:Saying No, Breaking Ranks and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times, by Eyal …
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Your Mother Loved My Poems
Your mother loved my poems. That’s a killer, she would say. Her knees grew weak Her voice in smoke dark …
Hannah Arendt: A Movie, A Book
In this 50th year following the publication of Hannah Arendt’s troubled and troubling book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the …
Power: Decentralized and Centralizing All In One Net
We had the good fortune to wander into a Jason Lanier talk at Book Passages in Corte Madera a few …
Blue Squadrons Pounding In From the Sea
All who despair should come to this place where silence inflates in wave after wave, where regiments of glass are …
Exit the Glories of Empire
Rumors of the glorious British Empire persist, the benevolence of the colonial rule, the improvement in the lives of the …
I Texted My Dad Today
I texted my dad today ten years dead. Dad, I wrote, they’re boating the bay heeled over hard, and wet. …
Why Does the World Exist?
On a recent 21 day river trip, the Colorado carving down into 1.8 billion year old rock and the stars …
Perla — A Novel of the Disappeared and Found
Perla Carolina De Robertis 2012, Random House What a brave book! Carolina De Robertis, widely celebrated for her first novel, The …
Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye
A friend of mine has fallen in love with Naomi Shihab Nye, a poet, a Palestinian-American. This is something she wrote, …
The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco
Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in …
Tenth of December: George Saunders Short Fiction
Count me among the many who have extravagantly praised George Saunders’ writing. Some of the passages in Tenth of December …