War

Book Review: “Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home”

April 6, 2021
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Endpapers is an invaluable gift to literature, mainly but not only for the quotations, details, and beguilingly written scenes of publisher Kurt Wolff’s life scattered throughout

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Theater Review: “Cry Havoc” — The Bard on War, and the Pity of War

September 15, 2016
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Cry Havoc’s message: We expend energy in preparing young men and women for war, but no effort in re-engaging them into the life of not-war.

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Book Review: A Well-Rounded Look at Napoleon the Man and the Myth

December 17, 2014
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Andrew Roberts has succeeded in a single volume in reconciling the two faces of this historical colossus.

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Book Review: Brilliant “Shards”

November 1, 2011
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In this novel, author Ismet Prcic’s confusion is so vivid that it becomes ours, making us participants in the story.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: Questioning the Image

November 18, 2010
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But The Image in Question begs a crucial question: Isn’t modern media supposed to be flashy, colorful, and loud beyond all sane toleration? Aren’t  shrill, unceasing proclamations a part of what drives some individuals away from television and video-games to art galleries, the concert-hall, and the cinema? THE IMAGE IN QUESTION. WAR — MEDIA —…

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Liberal Hawks and Paleo-Raptors

December 13, 2005
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Two books by left-wing pundits grapple with why they supported the Bush Administration’s invasion of Iraq. “The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq” by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) “Power and the Idealists: Or, The Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath” by Paul Berman. (Soft Skull Press) By Harvey Blume The inescapable question for…

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