The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25 …
Category Archives: War
Every Man Dies Alone — Hans Fallada, Germany 1947
No less than Primo Levi, Herman Hesse and Thomas Mann have sung the praises of Hans Fallada, the novelist who …
Garbo: The Spy — A Documentary, WW II
Sort of by accident, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, we went to see Garbo: The Spy, a 2009 documentary and …
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
I’ve been reading — actually, listening to– Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War for a week, during commute times, …
Teddy Roosevelt: More on His Racial Theories
I’ve been amazed in reading James Bradley’s Imperial Cruise to discover how pervasive racial theories dominated political thought and action …
Imperial Cruise by James Bradley — A Secret History of Empire and War
We have been recently treated to a bit of public discussion about those who re-write history in order to clean …
The Armies — A Novel from Colombia
One of the great pleasures of going to the annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association [ALTA] is the …
Hiroshima Joe – A Novel
Seeing the smoking wasteland of Hiroshima, particularly the blasted home and shredded family of a friend immediately after the Bomb …
Men In The Sun: Stories from Palestine
Men in the Sun is a slight volume of 7 short stories, the longest only 52 pages. Published in 1999 …
Poets:The Far Flung Word
I can’t say how really amazing it is to be at the GRD Poetry Festival in Newark, to see poets …
The Tillman Story
It was somewhat discouraging to see the size of the audience at the 7 o’clock Friday showing of The Tillman …
Washington Rules by Andrew Bacevich; a Review
Andrew Bacevich, a historian of growing repute, a writer of substantial historical and social analysis and a self identified conservative …