Posts Tagged with ‘Books:Fiction’
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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
26 Aug 2020For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your…
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The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone
08 Jan 2020In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in…
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Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution
10 Oct 2019Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that,…
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The Communist – A Novel from Italy
21 Aug 2019The number of readers for a novel titled The Communist, in the United States, with its long history of…
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The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
15 Nov 2018The Return of the Soldier was Rebecca West‘s (later, Dame Rebecca West) first novel. Though considered slight against her later…
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All The Kings Men: Old Templates for New Demagogues
18 Jul 2018After recent study and due consideration I can say with certainty that to call President Trump the reincarnation of…
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War Porn – Roy Scranton’s Unremitting Gaze
12 Dec 2017War Porn (2016) by Roy Scranton is not a book to be easily read. To be read, yes, but…
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(Many ) A Day in Dublin with James Joyce
18 Apr 2017Ulysses is, well, only a Dublin day, yes, but seven years in the writing and possibly as long to appreciatively read it.…
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James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
23 Mar 2017Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a…
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The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
26 Jan 2017Somehow, in all my years of reading, Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man, 1952, never entered my great river of books, even having…
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Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence
14 Dec 2016Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school…
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The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba
30 Nov 2016World traveling, wine loving tourists might be forgiven for not associating the famed, vine-covered hills of Piemonte, Italy, with savage, civil…
