With a Weapon and a Grin:
Postcard images of France’s Black African Colonial Troups of WWI by Stephan Likosky. (Anglen, Pa.: Schiffer Military History, 2017) . “C’est le blanc qui crée le nègre.” – Frantz Fanon. In light of Steven Bannor’s elevation to Gauleiter in the new Trump administration, this morning’s most poignant read’s been his mentor Josef Goebbels’ Principals of Propaganda. By […]
Four Decades Later, Teenaged Killer is Paroled, and Deported
The day this article appeared the last letter of my decade long prison correspondence with Dempsey Hawkins, with the few dollars I could spare towards his first days of freedom, was returned to me: addressee no longer here. After 39 years my pal is no longer penned. Crime Scene By MICHAEL WILSON JAN. 29, 2017 […]
Books as Weapons, 2016
Tragedy: The Orestia by Aeschylus and Sophocles Electra. It was Richard Strauss’s version of the latter at the Met this spring (for me the artistic achievement of 2016) that set me off rereading classic tragic magic in light of our very American dilemmas. The curse of the House of Atreus, also my family’s saga, has […]
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