“Eyes Full of Empty” — Jérémie Guez, in Noirish Paris
If walking the dark streets of Paris, mayhem around every corner, learning skulduggery from residents of the banlieues, is your idea …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
“The Dream of My Return” by Horacio Castellanos Moya: Droll Paranoia from El Salvador
Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in Honduras (1957), grew up in El Salvador, went into exile in Mexico and now teaches …
The Courage Not to Go to War
“I was a coward. I went to the war.” is one of the most true and courageous lines in Tim …
Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without A County
I read A Man Without a Country back when it came out, 2005. Vonnegut died soon after, April, 2017, so …
A Matter of Degrees
These are notes I took while reading Gino Segre’s A Matter of Degrees (2002) when it first came out. This …
Across The Black Waters — Indian-British Soldiers at the Western Front
That British, French and German soldiers fought and died in their millions on the Western Front in WW I is …
Where to Invade Next – Michael Moore
Despite the contentious nature of his movies Michael Moore has never been a mean or belligerent film-maker. He has seemed …
Molly’s Gift — A Story
When the car began its turn and the headlights moved into our eyes I was there. A halo rose through …
The Story of Stories: Why do We Tell Them? How Long Have We Told Them?
Not everyone can tell a gripping story but telling stories may be as integral to the evolution of Homo sapiens …
Tigers on the Tenth Day — Fabled Syria
Zakaria Tamer (b 1931 in Damascus) has been in exile from his native Syria in England since the early 1980s where …
The Secrets — Desire and Emergence in Conservative Israel
Avi Nesher’s 2007 film, The Secrets, is full of them, though not only the secret forbidden love promised by the posters. Neither …
Khorma – The Foolish Crier, Tunisia
Stories of fools are likely as old as the telling of stories themselves, second only to those of powerful heroes …