Language Does Not Lie — Victor Klemperer

9/28/2017

Victor Klemperer was a philologist, a German and a Jew in Dresden during the Nazi regime and the world war. As …

On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder

9/26/2017

Do Not Obey in Advance This is the sentence which starts Timothy Snyder’s sadly necessary book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons …

9/23/2017

The government of Iceland fell the week we were in the country. It wasn’t apparent in the shops, streets or …

9/20/2017

I’ve been away and tramping the back roads of Iceland for two weeks and am so far behind I can’t …

9/6/2017

Long before William Styron became famous for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979) he wrote a slim …