Making Memorial
Geoff Dyer’s 1994 The Missing of the Somme, published in the United States in 2011, takes us on a …
Tag Archives: Books
On War Resistance
“If in any country whatever a recruiting campaign were to be launched today for some utterly preposterous war, a war …
A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
I am knocked out! Listening to the Audible version which she, herself, reads. Highly recommend. The timbre of her voice as …
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry
I just ordered my copy…. From the Iliad to John Balaban (a friend), from the Vietnam war. [None that I …
Virtual Unreality: A Warning
As a genetically formed skeptic I am gollywogged over what so many people believe so much of the time without …
Reading Vienna
In the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I …
Reading Prague
Prague, as every traveler will tell you, is a wonderful town, full of surprises and visual delights. It is full of improbable …
Night train From Prague — a Book Left Behind
I bought Night train From Prague by Cheryl Harlick to read on my own night train to Prague, thinking it would be …
Canal Reading — In Amsterdam
The rain is pelting down as as I take my first steps around Amsterdam, the Venice of the North as some …
Thinking in Other Languages
As a translator of Spanish literature into English who early on felt he was a different person when speaking Spanish …
Redeployment – Stories From A War
Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from …
Books in Brief
A couple of books sliding past my eyes this week, the kind I would wish to read but know I …