Announcement… “Legacy of Ashes” 2 Nov 20202 Nov 2020 I don't usually post twice in one day, but those pesky editors don't always coordinate their releases, seeing that I publish in magazines based all over the English-speaking world, and…
book review Book Review: “Life and Fate,” by Vasily Grossman 7 Jul 20198 Sep 2019 Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. It is no surprise that a book with perhaps the most Russian title ever--Life and Fate--weighs in at 871 pages in its English translation.…
Author post… Recursions, Part 7: “The Portable Hannah Arendt,” Edited by Peter Baehr 5 Oct 20175 Oct 2017 This is the seventh in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post Novels and Nazis 14 Aug 201715 Aug 2017 Is there a place for novels and novelists when Nazis march the streets of a tarnishing America, and gather in the squares of Europe, while clans face off in the…