Theeb: A Bedouin Boy in the WWI Desert
Aimless movie wandering sometimes pays dividends. We happened into a streaming presentation of Theeb, by British-Jordanian director, Abu Nowar. Recipient of considerable …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
The Face of War– Martha Gellhorn, Seven Wars
Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) wrote much and lived more. As Bill Buford, the fiction editor at “The New Yorker” …
The Starched Blue Skies of Spain – a Remembrance by Josephine Herbst
The Starched Blue Skies Of Spain by Josephine Herbst is a small, mostly overlooked gem of reportage/memoir from the Civil …
Muhammad Ali, on World Peace
On August 5, 1978, a letter to the editor was published in The Nation Magazine. Its author was Muhammad Ali, …
The Face of War –Martha Gellhorn, her life
Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) referred to by some as one of the world’s great war correspondents did not write …
“Not So Quiet…” — A Woman Writes of War
War writing is almost by definition writing by men about men. It also, almost universally, centers on the climactic moments, the …
“Spain In Our Hearts” by Adam Hochschild
The Spanish Civil war, from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, cost some half a million Spanish lives; another half …
Not So Quiet On the Western Front, A Woman Looks at WW I
Helen Zenna Smith, who wrote one of the most powerful witnesses to war I’ve ever read, was the pseudonym of …
For the Unknown Enemy, a Poem by William Stafford
For the Unknown Enemy This monument is for the unknown good in our enemies. Like a picture their life began …
“Like Family” by Paolo Giordano, New from Italy
Paolo Giordano, an Italian particle physicist and author of several acclaimed novels treats us to his latest, in Anne Milano …
“The Human Body” by Paolo Giordano, Italian Soldiers in Afghanistan
Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body comes with encomiums such as ” a stunning exploration of war,” “a great novel of …
“Honeydew” — Short Fiction by Edith Pearlman
Some writers are masters of the short story, others won’t touch them with a ten-foot pen; some readers graze on them …