More Post-War Movies: Three from Japan
It is of continuing interest to me how people in all their cultural wrappings respond to portrayals of themselves as …
Monthly Archives: May 2017
The Irish in WW I – a preview
I am some way into Sebastian Barry’s 2005, A Long Long Way. The language is so inventive and surprising that …
“Schlump,” a Novel of WW I
The New York Review of Books has an absolutely terrific line of books under its imprint, culled from around the …
How War Began – Way Back Then
Why do we do it, so often, with such relish? Go to war, that is. Is it locked into our …