Begin Again – Eddie S. Glaude Jr
Eddie Glaude Jr. is one of a vital new wave of Black American writers¹. Though he primarily writes of religion …
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The Road – Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman, (Ukrainian-Soviet, 1905–1964,) may be the world’s least known colossal writer. His short fiction, his stupendous novels, his moral …
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story – by Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, one of the best writers of creative non-fiction since John McPhee invented the genre has followed his eye-opening …
The Backwash of War — Ellen LaMotte
It is a rare event for a woman to write of war. Until WWI possibly none. Though women have been …
Exterminate All the Brutes – Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist begins his short, vital, disturbing Exterminate All The Brutes with the words, “You already know enough. So do …
Unworthy Republic
History, as taught to children, throughout the world, is primarily a means of instilling national pride. What if, instead, its …
War As It Is – Gert Ledig’s German War Fiction: The Stalin Organ, and Payback
Gert Ledig was of the generation of German writers who fought in World War II and lived to write about …
Life and Fate – Vasily Grossman
If Vasily Grossman‘s great novel, Life and Fate (1980) lacks many millions of readers to catch Tolstoy’s War and Peace …
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Romantic period of Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly in England and of others around Europe is not normally thought of …
Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy
Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy (the pseudonym for Rose Allatini) was not only one of the first novels to …
Macho! by Victor Villaseñor
Macho! by Victor Villaseñor, (1973) was written almost fifty years ago, but many of its pages, could be drawn from …
James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your …