The War at Home 1918-1923
I’ve been away and tramping the back roads of Iceland for two weeks and am so far behind I can’t …
I’ve been away and tramping the back roads of Iceland for two weeks and am so far behind I can’t …
Long before William Styron became famous for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979) he wrote a slim …
Massacre and genocide have been on the scroll of human history since cracked skulls left their sure signs, then in …
A History of Warfare, (1993) by John Keegan is a substantial and interesting book, not for those who want to …
Robert Sapolsky is a highly celebrated neuroendocrinologist, who has also spent years in the wild observing baboon troops, putting him in a …
Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship, …
Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died …
One great thing about long driving trips is the time available to listen to good books. On a trip to …
Dominique Moïsi’ s 2009 The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World, is …
I happened across Salvador Calvo‘s, 2017 movie 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines / 1898: Los últimos de Filipinas …
Let me introduce myself as one of the only moviegoers in the western world to see Wonder Woman— on the …
Some books are so damn good it seems a sin to write about them. Just go read it, that’s all! …