Pete Seeger: Gone
The legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94. For nearly seven decades, Seeger …
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Snowy Owl in Florida
Not my photo … just whishin’ ….
Her — A Good Evening Squandered
Count me as among those who found Her, the new movie by Spike Jonze, very very borrrrring. By an hour …
Three Soldiers — A WW I Novel of John Dos Passos
It’s hard, reading today, to get a grip on the impact which John Dos Passos’ Three Soldiers had on the …
Race is Not a Useful Concept
The 2014 Annual Question at Edge.Org, surely a site you should check in with periodically, is “What Scientific Idea is …
Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence
If there were an “X” Prize for solving the problem of human violence, Russell Jacoby‘s Bloodlust: On the Roots of …
WW I As Recorded by those Who Were There
The British National Archives has announced that in this 100th year anniversary of the beginning of WW I, (August), that …
Blue is the Longest Color
Abdellatif Kechiche, director of the fine 2007 film Secret of the Grain, about working class immigrants in the French fishing …
Donald Rumsfeld: Still in Denial
Mark Danner reviews two books and a documentary film about Donald Rumsfeld in the January 9 edition of the New …
Nick Turse with POW Phil Butler in Berkeley
Review of Kill Anything That Moves, here.
Gandhi as Community Organizer
A new two volume biography of Mohandas Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha looks to be a good addition. Reviewed in The …
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Bravo Squad Brought Home
Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) is one hell of a good book –in conception, language, characters and …