Non Cooperation With Evil: Looking Back
An enormous human mystery that has gripped me since the day I refused to give orders and was ushered out …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream
KPFA, the venerable public radio station in the Bay Area, is offering during its fund-raiser, a copy of the film …
Generals Die in Bed: A Novel from WW I
Generals Die in Bed (1930) is a slender and undeservedly little known novel from WW I, by Canadian-American, Charles Yale Harrison …
Empathy: The Rules
Empathy like its sisters, gravity and light, with us from eternity, is subject to the rule of inverse squares, such …
Ry Cooder’s Election Special: We have to hurry up and be smart.
Friend brought by Ry Cooder’s Election Special album. Sometimes the beat is so infectious is obscures the story the lyrics …
Storm of Steel: Another German’s View of the Trenches, WW I
World War I was the bloody birthing ground for war literature, both of the trenches and the years of recovery. …
Bogart: I Was Born When You Kissed Me, Died When You Left Me….
Sometimes you come upon a book or a movie you can’t figure out how you had missed earlier. I haven’t seen …
Breaking Knees – Stories from Syria by Zakaria Tamer
Syria is in the news, unhappily. Citizens are fleeing the fighting and overwhelming the resources in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. …
Citizens of London: A History of War and Romance
Lynn Olson, author of the very interesting Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest …
Wooden Crosses: A Movie of Wartime France
Reading the Absolutist last week, a British novel of war in the trenches, WW I, I was reminded of …
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, …
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 …