Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti
A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
In The Garden of Beasts — a Review
All who have read about, and certainly those who experienced, World War II and Germany’s becoming the vicious murderer of its …
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy– A Short Take
I was not alone in the crowds the other night exiting Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy wondering what it the heck we had missed. …
“Shame” – A Real Shame
I’m going to save you $10 and two hours of your life right here. The movie Shame, with deep pretense …
The Girl in the Cafe — A Short Take
The Girl in the Cafe is one of those wonderful, little-heard of films that you nearly click away from, the …
Tomas Transtromer: A Poet Cheered by Small Things
I know you know that Tomas Transtromer, Sweden’t great poet, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. But, my …
The Despair of Turbines
I remember a photo of Uncle Bill beside a turbine. He said he had a wide smile on. I couldn’t …
After the Sea Broke
After the sea broke the lighthouse went cold just when we needed it most– a white light filling with blues. …
Blue Day With Man
BLUE There is the ocean: blue, blue green, blue and more, a blue and green and blue green blue blue …
The Arch of Triumph: Love in Paris, 1938 — A Short Take
Ingrid Bergman looks her fabled, youthful best and Charles Boyer dark and dashing as her handsome, older lover in The Arch of …
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing …
Red Brocade: A Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
A friend gave me Naomi Shihab Nye‘s wonderful 19 Varieties of Gazelle a month or so ago. I regularly use …