“The Good Fight Continues,” a collection of World War II letters from the soldiers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. You remember them, of course. You don’t? Well! “They were a volunteer army of about 2,800 men and women who had enlisted to defend the Spanish Republic from military rebels during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939),” […]
Archives for November 2006
RUBBER STAMPS
We’ll see whether the Bullshitter-in-Chief and his minions. David Brooks, in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan?) Not to single him out — although he also deserves it for
ART AND MISDIRECTION
I’m a sucker for a pretty picture. Like this one, made by the guy who used to be Newsweek’s art critic:
WILLIAM STYRON, RIP
Death was never very far from his mind. “Once, when serving with the Marines, Styron was stationed on a desolate island in New York City’s East River where unclaimed bodies of the dead were buried.” So went my intro to an interview he gave me many years ago. (He ‘Lie Down in Darkness,’ his first […]