Such a Long Journey — A Novel About Parsi India, 1972
I don’t know why I picked up Rohinton Mistry’s Such A Long Journey. Published and shortlisted for the Booker Prize …
Monthly Archives: November 2013
War Requiem – Music that Moves the Soul
I’ve been wanting to be at a full performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem ever since I first heard about …
Kill Anything that Moves: More Terrible Truth About War
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything That Moves:The Real American War in Vietnam, has been praised by virtually everyone who has read …
Cloud Watching, a Poem by Natalie Diaz
I have been reading Natalie Diaz, one poem at a time, one each morning as I’m waking. It’s her first …
Water — A Film of India’s Widows
Water is the third of Indo-Canadian director, Deepa Mehta‘s Elements trilogy of women in India. Fire was produced in 1996, …
Company K — Americans in France, WW I
William March’s 1933 novel, Company K, about an American Marine company in France for 9 months at the end of …
Holding on to the Music in WW II London
Bach, Grieg and World War II would seem to make an odd trio if you went no further than scanning …
Bringing Mulligan Back Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Dale Maharidge is the author of two well regarded books of nonfiction. The second, And Their Children After Them, following …
The Secret of the Grain — the Couscous of Love
Abdel Kechiche is getting a lot of press these weeks for his daring love story of two woman, daringly shown, …