Mottled Dawn – Stories and Sketches of the Partition of India
There are wars known, and wars unknown –except to those who lost loved ones, homes and futures. The two world …
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Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
During a long quarantine such as we are now undergoing it’s a good time for stories, as the locked-up Florentines …
Reading the Classics: Zora Neale Hurston
The fight over what are the “essential” books to read in the world-as-it-is-becoming, is at least several generations old. The …
“The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
“Why do you have your guns out?” – Kenneth Chamberlain, 66 “What are you following me for?” – Trayvon Martin, …
The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule
The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly …
The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone
In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in …
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
One winter afternoon Comrade Tulayev, an important Party official, is shot dead. By the time The Case of Comrade …
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
One of the most important scientists of the western tradition, and about whom we in America know little, is …
Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution
Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that, …
The Use of Man — Aleksandar Tišma
Wars are waged and war novels are written. Seldom are they written about small, out-of-the-way places or non-heroic people, …
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup (2018) by John Carreyrou has justly received dozens upon …
The Communist – A Novel from Italy
The number of readers for a novel titled The Communist, in the United States, with its long history of …