Down A River with 16 Paddles
I’ll be in an untethered state until June 10 floating, and sometimes cataracting, down the Colorado River through the Grand …
Monthly Archives: April 2013
The Company You Keep — An Old Liberal Looks at Old Radicals
It’s long been a puzzle to me why the sizzling years in the United States from say, 1963 to 1975, …
Stop The War (The Cats Are Killing Themselves)
Michael Herr mentions this old classic in the opening pages of his Vietnam war memoir/reportage, Dispatches. Stop The War (The …
No Man’s Land: A Novel from Vietnam by Duong Thu Huong
I couldn’t have been more surprised when our guide in Hanoi, a Vietnamese Catholic, mentioned offhandedly that some soldiers coming …
Behind the Red Mist — Fiction from Vietnam
I first encountered Ho Anh Thai’s fiction at it’s fantastical best in the wonderful Whereabouts volume of Vietnam: A Traveller’s …
Laotian Women Dig for US ‘Bombies’ — Still
A friend who has been following my recent trip to Southeast Asia, including a report from the COPE facility in Vientiane, Laos …
The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary
The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only …
Why Did They Kill? — An Anthropologist Looks at the Cambodian Genocide
Among the modern horrors of mass killings of non combatants, from the Holocaust on [or for many scholars from the …