Zone of Emptiness – A Japanese Novel of WWII
Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship, …
Category Archives: Books
Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died …
A House Divided: Vituperation in the Beginning
One great thing about long driving trips is the time available to listen to good books. On a trip to …
Geopolitics and the Emotions – Dominique Moïsi
Dominique Moïsi’ s 2009 The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World, is …
“A Long Long Way” – the Irish in WW I
Some books are so damn good it seems a sin to write about them. Just go read it, that’s all! …
The Shock of the Anthropocene — What Hath Man Wrought?
I am very glad to welcome an old friend and fellow resister-of-bad-ideas, Michael Ferber, to the postings of All In …
WW I: Not What Caused it, but What It Was Like
The interest of readers in World War I seems to divide into three main categories: high-level diplomatic threats, promises and …
On War with Gwynne Dyer
On War with Gwynne Dyer is a seven episode television series done in 1983 under the auspices of the Canadian …
The Irish in WW I – a preview
I am some way into Sebastian Barry’s 2005, A Long Long Way. The language is so inventive and surprising that …
“Schlump,” a Novel of WW I
The New York Review of Books has an absolutely terrific line of books under its imprint, culled from around the …
How War Began – Way Back Then
Why do we do it, so often, with such relish? Go to war, that is. Is it locked into our …
(Many ) A Day in Dublin with James Joyce
Ulysses is, well, only a Dublin day, yes, but seven years in the writing and possibly as long to appreciatively read it. …