Storm of Steel: Another German’s View of the Trenches, WW I
World War I was the bloody birthing ground for war literature, both of the trenches and the years of recovery. …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Bogart: I Was Born When You Kissed Me, Died When You Left Me….
Sometimes you come upon a book or a movie you can’t figure out how you had missed earlier. I haven’t seen …
Breaking Knees – Stories from Syria by Zakaria Tamer
Syria is in the news, unhappily. Citizens are fleeing the fighting and overwhelming the resources in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. …
Citizens of London: A History of War and Romance
Lynn Olson, author of the very interesting Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest …
Wooden Crosses: A Movie of Wartime France
Reading the Absolutist last week, a British novel of war in the trenches, WW I, I was reminded of …
Darwin: The Mouthpiece of Satan
Now here’s a book I have to read — Rebecca Stott’s new book about Darwin, and it’s not the first, …
War Horse: War Horror on the Stage
I have to admit I was knocked out by the staging of War Horse at San Francisco’s Curran Theater. I …
Attila The Hun and Mao Tse-Tung in Song and Dance
I managed to crowd my Opera season into two evenings a few weeks ago, no longer able to afford the tariff for …
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry — An Artist, An Organizer, A Movie
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a documentary film that’s a three-fer. It will be interesting and instructive, even moving, to …
You and Your Virtual Life
This isn’t about books, movies or politics, but stepping under my computing hat for a moment I thought readers should …
A First Birthday
At 4:01 in the morning I awake, exactly 58 years of life on earth and this the first that …
Outcasts Cast Their Lots Together
So I have no idea why the excellent French movie, titled Intouchables in French, is being marketed as “Intouchables” in …