Torn — A Movie that tears many ways
When an American film opens with two attractive people in an American style house canoodling in Urdu you suspect you’ve …
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Leaping Linguals! Everything is Understood!
Just about my favorite place to be in the world –or in time– is at the annual conference of the …
We Steal Secrets — The WikiLeaks Documentary
I haven’t seen The Fifth Estate, Bill Condon’s commercial version of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks yet but last night I …
Earth: The Tectonics of Violence
Deepa Mehta’s Earth is the second in her film trilogy of women’s lives in India as the country exited from …
Afghan Landays — Women in the Shadows
In my dream I was the president. When I awoke, I was the beggar of the world. Ashaba, an …
The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th
The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades. I spent a very fruitful year in …
Why Do Underdogs Fight? Malcolm Gladwell Wonders…
Malcolm Gladwell, a hunter-gatherer of human behavior, and about as well known a writer as one could be, appeared at …
The Enormous Room — ee cummings
The Enormous Room by ee cumings, known and loved far and wide for his playful erotic, anarchic, love-full, meaning-full poems, …
#8 Respect Those With Less Power than You….
A dear friend sent this on, and I send it on again. Very nice stuff, and delivered with just the …
“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
Twigs — by Taha Muhammad Ali
As I contemplate yet another birthday, this, one of the famous ‘ends in zero’ years, I thought I’d post perhaps …