Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy
Despised and Rejected by A.T. Fitzroy (the pseudonym for Rose Allatini) was not only one of the first novels to …
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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your …
The Milkman — Civilians in a War Zone
In the summer of 1972 I spent a month, with my then dearest friend, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in …
Gustav Flaubert on Love and Revolution
Gustav Flaubert, known in the entire literate world as the author of Madame Bovary and not much beyond that, …
The Communist – A Novel from Italy
The number of readers for a novel titled The Communist, in the United States, with its long history of …
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Return of the Soldier was Rebecca West‘s (later, Dame Rebecca West) first novel. Though considered slight against her later …
All The Kings Men: Old Templates for New Demagogues
After recent study and due consideration I can say with certainty that to call President Trump the reincarnation of …
War Porn – Roy Scranton’s Unremitting Gaze
War Porn (2016) by Roy Scranton is not a book to be easily read. To be read, yes, but …
(Many ) A Day in Dublin with James Joyce
Ulysses is, well, only a Dublin day, yes, but seven years in the writing and possibly as long to appreciatively read it. …
James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a …
The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
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 — Man in his Violence
Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school …