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“A Map of Betrayal”
I’ve been left alone to do my own work, to live my own life. ~Ha Jin Contemporary Chinese literature is a genre that doesn’t...
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Günter Grass: 1927-2015
Günter Grass, the German novelist, poet, playwright, artist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature died yesterday at the age of 87. Last month, a story was posted about Gunter Grass and one...
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“Zealot”
The more I probed the Bible to arm myself against the doubts of unbelievers, the more distance I discovered between the Jesus of the gospels and the Jesus of history – between Jesus the Christ and...
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“The Wife of Martin Guerre”
…when hate and love have together exhausted the soul, the body seldom endures for long. While scouring the shelves described as “classics” in an independent bookstore (Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry)...
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“Orphan #8”
Did anyone know what was going on there? Of course they did. They must have. Kim van Alkemade, a writing professor at the University of Pennsylvania at Shippensburg spent about five years researching...
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Elie Wiesel, Night, and July 4th
Three years ago, I posted a book review of Elie Wiesel’s Night – the story of his family and how the teenage Wiesel survived the Holocaust during World War II. On this July 4th as we celebrate...
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The Good Lord Bird
It weren’t slavery that made me want to be free. It was my heart. If the cover of The Good Lord Bird did not disclose the author to be James McBride, the reader would think that Mark Twain was the...
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The Return
The country that separates fathers and sons has disoriented many travelers. Many Americans associate Libya with the September 11, 2012 uprising in Benghazi where Islamic militants attacked the...
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
I am here. I need you to see me. I need you to see that I am here. You, world, cannot make me crumble. I am alive. I am alive. I am alive. Clemantine Wamariya was born in 1988 in Rwanda and led an...
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Manhattan Beach
Seven years ago in 2011, Jennifer Egan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for A Visit From The Goon Squad (Goon Squad) – a novel that wasn’t typical in its structure or story which left readers...
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