… and reactions to it, he can appreciate Paul Conkin’s studied attempt at a balanced assessment. “I have never … “Wills tells us nothing of the sort,” Steinfels points out. He writes as though the United States initiated … the contrary tensions within a single intellect. . . .” 244-261 By Ralph E. Luker …
Art & The Archive
… craning my neck, to run a hand through my hair before it comes to look as clamped to my head as the calyx on top of … Chance helped: The formidable, generous, and brilliant website Le Cinema Club, which hosts free streams, with … for each other and the camera, knowing that some future audience lies in wait. Calle announces at the start that the …
Criticism
… Novelist To the End of the Land, by David Grossman. Knopf, $26.95 In thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including … language and angry curses, hectors Ilan and his fellow soldiers for not rescuing him. Grossman was a longtime radio … with small monuments—benches, plaques, trees, lookout points—dedicated to fallen soldiers. One such encounter …
Photography
… as a result of the US bombing of Hiroshima. The year she died, Sadako was able to make more than 1,400 paper cranes … Whenever a mass school shooting happens, the grieving community is inundated with gifts and letters. (In Parkland, … and they agreed to help manage the files and build a website. And so we started. I would take a tray of stuff and …
… Genocidal Mind. That project does not appear to have been completed, but now, a quarter century later, Goldhagen’s … that led them to conclude that the Jews ought to die,” a thesis that, according to the author, “stands in … accumulated during the Weimar years, and that generals, who willingly contributed to the extinction of Soviet …
Criticism
… the “ X ”—above which is written the number of people who died, and to the side of which is a written a “Yes” or “No” … when you see the stretch of tents and couches that has become an open-air homeless shelter beneath a highway … writing in a time when these anachronistic and surreal tragedies occur, when modernity in its most innocuous forms has …