Darwin: The Mouthpiece of Satan
Now here’s a book I have to read — Rebecca Stott’s new book about Darwin, and it’s not the first, …
Category Archives: Books
War Horse: War Horror on the Stage
I have to admit I was knocked out by the staging of War Horse at San Francisco’s Curran Theater. I …
A First Birthday
At 4:01 in the morning I awake, exactly 58 years of life on earth and this the first that …
The Devil in the Flesh: Adultery in WW I, France
Raymond Radiguet, the 16 year old author of The Devil in the Flesh / “Le Diable au Corps,” 1923, died …
Post War: A History of Europe since 1945, Tony Judt
Tony Judt’s magisterial work, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 wasn’t his last before his sadly premature death, but it was …
The Absolutist: A Novel of War Time Refusal
John Boyne, born in Dublin in 1971, manages to summon the spirits of two very particular men, sent to fight …
Message of Love from Valdemar Gris — Miguel Labordeta
MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM VALDEMAR GRIS by Miguel Labordeta From my own man sadness wrenched out in bits of bitter …
Cities of Salt: The Trench — The Pit in the Desert
Abdelrahman Munif‘s trilogy,* Cities of Salt is one of those era-defining efforts of literary imagination and craft. It has been called …
The Mirror – a Poem, Jose Angel Valente
The Mirror Jose Angel Valente Today I saw my face, so unfamiliar, so strange and fallen in this mirror. It …
Cities Of Salt: Wadi No More
Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does …
WW I in Paris: Murder in Aurora
The Past Recaptured (1932), the US title and Frederick Blossom translation of Le Temps retrouvé, is the seventh volume of Marcel Proust’s immortal Remembrance …
Natural Mechanical — a small volume of large poems
I’ve been reading the poems of J.O. Morgan, Scot, lately. And slowly. A page a morning, as is taught by …