After Bucha…
The massive Russian invasion of Ukraine and the savage cruelties of many of Russia’s soldiers have brought to mind for me and many other journalists and writers Adorno’s anguished lament of almost 80 years ago : “After Auschwitz, to write a poem is barbaric…” … and that barbarism “is why it has become impossible to … read more »
Time of the Wolf: Germany, post-war
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner My rating: 5 of 5 stars Aftermath by Harald Jähner (original: Wolfszeit, “Wolf Time,” 2019) is about the Germans in 1945-1955, recovering from the war, their huge and humiliating defeat, the destruction of most of their cities and production facilities, and their own … read more »
Another review of “Rabble!”
From Robert (“Bob”) Kolodney in Washington DC, Harvard classmate and active leader of reading groups. Geoffrey Fox does a marvelous job of making the 19th Century come alive through participants in the ill-fated Paris Commune of 1871. Following the French loss in the Franco Prussian War, there was a brief chance for working class … read more »
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Ost-Afrika: what the Germans left
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah My rating: 4 of 5 stars Abdulrazak Gurnah has given us a vivid reimagining of the Africans’ experience during and following the German administration and wars in Deutsch-Ost-Afrika, German East Africa, from the 1880s until the defeat of Germany in November 1918, when the victors then divided up the enormous, formerly … read more »