To End All Wars: Adam Hochschild
If you’ve ever stood a picket line, leafleted about an unpopular cause, been arrested for civil disobedience, fought and lost against the powerful, …
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men, …
El sueño del celta: Mario Vargas Llosa
Sir Roger Casement is one of the super-heroes of international human rights, and was so before such a phrase existed. …
You May Hold My Falcon
Visit Welcome to Abu Dhabi, the Minister of Culture said. You may hold my falcon as we visit. He slipped …
Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation
I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid …
Hula Girls: Coal Miners’ Daughters in Japan — a Movie
Around our house there are two streams of movie selections: dark, meaningful films, preferably by “auteurs,” about people overcoming terrible …
Alhaam: A Film from Iraq — 2005
Alhaam, a movie shot in Iraq in 2004 — during the full catastrophe of the US invasion and related Iraqi …