The Long March – William Styron
Long before William Styron became famous for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979) he wrote a slim …
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Tadeusz Borowski — The Camps are Us
Massacre and genocide have been on the scroll of human history since cracked skulls left their sure signs, then in …
A History of Warfare – John Keegan
A History of Warfare, (1993) by John Keegan is a substantial and interesting book, not for those who want to …
Baboons and You: A Natural History of Peace
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 – A Japanese Novel of WWII
Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship, …
A House Divided: Vituperation in the Beginning
One great thing about long driving trips is the time available to listen to good books. On a trip to …
Geopolitics and the Emotions – Dominique Moïsi
Dominique Moïsi’ s 2009 The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World, is …
“A Long Long Way” – the Irish in WW I
Some books are so damn good it seems a sin to write about them. Just go read it, that’s all! …
The Shock of the Anthropocene — What Hath Man Wrought?
I am very glad to welcome an old friend and fellow resister-of-bad-ideas, Michael Ferber, to the postings of All In …
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 …