Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of …
It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of …
Somehow, in all my years of reading, Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man, 1952, never entered my great river of books, even having …
Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school …
World traveling, wine loving tourists might be forgiven for not associating the famed, vine-covered hills of Piemonte, Italy, with savage, civil …
The French resistance to the Nazis in WW II was much celebrated after the war. Whatever their actual resistance and …
There will come the day when the ashes tossed to wind are mine. Pick a day of heavy breeze, I would …
Learning a new language, past the age of ten at least, is something like doing a major, complicated leggo construction, …
It’s hard to know what words to use to praise a book like Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. It’s not a …
A man joins the army and dreams of glory. He is sent to a distant northern frontier post watching for any …
You don’t want to miss seeing, and hearing, The Music of Strangers, a fresh breath of air in this season …
“Hopelessly heterogeneous… Honeycombed with diverse and racial sub-elements…. Thus read the Federal Housing Authority report on the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los …
Somehow or other last week had us viewing two coming of age movies of young boys. One, Theeb (see below) taking …