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The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule

1/18/2020

  The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly …

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A Test of Wills — Solving Small Crimes not the Big Ones

11/9/2015

A Test of Wills, (1996) by Charles Todd is the first of what has become a series of some seventeen novels featuring Inspector …

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The African Queen: WW I Adventureland

7/23/2015

  Needing a break from my sometimes distressing immersion in WWI memoirs and history [here, here and here] I thought I’d …

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Naples Liberated: Curzio Malaparte’s “The Skin”

6/14/2015

It is hard to think of another work of fiction of such savage irony as Curzio Malaparte‘s La Pelle (1949) …

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The Monstrous Enterprise — Céline on the War

1/7/2015

The first one-fifth of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night, [1934, Ralph Manheim translation, 1983] is from …

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A Classic from Poland – “The Doll” by Boleslaw Prus

12/28/2014

The most  unusual book in my reading universe this year has to be the 1890 Polish classic, The Doll (“Lalka”) …

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WW I: The Call of the Soil – Blood and Glory from France

10/9/2014

Many of the novels written about World War I, by those who fought in it, didn’t appear until a decade …

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Beware of Pity – Says Forgotten Austrian Novelist

8/14/2014

“Beware of Pity.”  Who would think to proffer such advice, in a novel no less, repeatedly and in great detail? …

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On War Resistance

8/7/2014

“If in any country whatever a recruiting campaign were to be launched today for some utterly preposterous war, a war …

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WW I: On the Eastern Front in The Forest of the Hanged

7/16/2014

World War I as it is written of and imagined in European and American minds is almost entirely of what …

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Reading Vienna

6/8/2014

  In  the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I …

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Croatian Nights — New Fiction from Croatia

5/27/2014

My literary companion during 5 days in Croatia has been Croatian Nights a joint effort of 19 stories by Croatian and British …

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