The Sea and Poison — Shūsaku Endō, confronting War Crimes
Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice …
Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice …
After recent study and due consideration I can say with certainty that to call President Trump the reincarnation of …
Combing through the archives for my proposed magnum hopus, “What We Talk About When We Talk About War,” I came …
THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not …
Heinrich Böll (1917 – 1985) is not a name that non-German readers will associate with other 20th century German …
The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind …
Not much is more startling to read than a paragraph beginning “At about noon on the day Hiroshima was bombed …
Anyone who has ever lived in, or been drawn to, Oregon, its coastal villages, conifer forests, big cities or high-desert …
For those of you who are decades away from reading Herman Melville or find that what you remember of him …
Though All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929, made Erich Maria Remarque far and away the …
Stephen Pinker, Harvard savant and current leader in the Candide impersonator contest, was up to his usual tricks at the …
“If in any country whatever a recruiting campaign were to be launched today for some utterly preposterous war, a war …