06.07.25 Six Armies in Normandy We took the family to France this summer, culminating in a week in Normandy.
09.29.12 Sodom and Gomorrah I first read A la Recherche du Temps Perdus in the summer I turned 17, and I have to say, it scared the hell out of me.
05.05.13 The Souls of Black Folk To read W.E.B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk in near proximity to Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery is a disorienting experience.
06.07.25 The Spies of Warsaw There’s not much to say about Alan Furst’s The Spies of Warsaw. It is not the author’s best work.
07.18.12 Storm of Steel “If you’d be a teacher, by your students you’ll be taught.” So goes the saying, and it’s true.
04.16.13 Strom Thurmond's America “How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?"
06.07.25 Swimming in a Sea of Death David Rieff has reported from almost every strange, dusty, and violent corner of the globe. Cruelty, violence, and death have been his great subjects.
06.07.25 T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form The London lawyer Anthony Julius is nick-named “Anthony Genius” in the British tabloids, and no wonder: The man is a prodigy.
06.07.25 Terroni Terroni is a big, emotional mess of a book, full of insinuations, accusations, overstatements, misstatements, and outright paranoia.