‘John Masters is now an almost forgotten novelist… A figure of quiet authority, he receives, in James Salter’s memoir Burning the Days (1997), the finest compliment a man…
Seventy-five years after the Civil War began, Sinclair Lewis, America’s first Nobel laureate for literature, feared another national cataclysm: a Fascist takeover. In the course of It Can’t Happen Here…
I thought of titling this ‘No Comment Required’, but there is one and it follows this list of the top three stories from Slate’s Afternoon Edition for Nov. 22: TSA…
What was the Bush II Administration’s strategy for the Middle East? Why was Iraq central to it? It is beginning to appear, at least to me, that their fascination with Winston…