Blue Squadrons Pounding In From the Sea
All who despair should come to this place where silence inflates in wave after wave, where regiments of glass are …
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Exit the Glories of Empire
Rumors of the glorious British Empire persist, the benevolence of the colonial rule, the improvement in the lives of the …
I Texted My Dad Today
I texted my dad today ten years dead. Dad, I wrote, they’re boating the bay heeled over hard, and wet. …
Why Does the World Exist?
On a recent 21 day river trip, the Colorado carving down into 1.8 billion year old rock and the stars …
Perla — A Novel of the Disappeared and Found
Perla Carolina De Robertis 2012, Random House What a brave book! Carolina De Robertis, widely celebrated for her first novel, The …
Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye
A friend of mine has fallen in love with Naomi Shihab Nye, a poet, a Palestinian-American. This is something she wrote, …
Why We Fight: Unmaking the Myth
Eugene Jareck’s 2005 documentary, Why We Fight, available at Netflix, is still a relevant film to watch, even though the motivating …
The Sheltering Sky — in Morocco
Since my wife returned from a two week visit to Morocco we’ve been combing old movies for scenes shot in …
Tenth of December: George Saunders Short Fiction
Count me among the many who have extravagantly praised George Saunders’ writing. Some of the passages in Tenth of December …
The Prince of Peace — A Novel of Love and War Resistance
On a long train ride from Los Angeles to Oakland recently I was able to take up the recommendation of …
Down A River with 16 Paddles
I’ll be in an untethered state until June 10 floating, and sometimes cataracting, down the Colorado River through the Grand …
The Company You Keep — An Old Liberal Looks at Old Radicals
It’s long been a puzzle to me why the sizzling years in the United States from say, 1963 to 1975, …