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Saturday, January 10, 2026

Sherlock Holmes, The Dog That Didn't Bark, and Protests in Iran

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  The phrase “ The dog that didn’t bark ” is one of my favorite metaphors from Arthur Conan Doyle ’s imagination.  In this case part of the ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

George Orwell’s Three-Power World—and Ours

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George Orwell ’s Nineteen Eighty-Four  does not present a world of many nations. It presents a world of three empires— Oceania , Eurasia , a...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Poet Flyer by E. John Knapp, a Review

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  E. John Knapp ’s Poet Flyer surprised me. The beginning of the story is routine and predictable as a war memoir. Whirlwind love. Whirlwin...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Sachsenhausen Nazi Death Camp.

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Sachsenhausen occupies a grim but central place in the Nazi camp system. Located just north of Berlin near the town of Oranienburg , it was...
Monday, December 29, 2025

My Books of 2025: A Baker's Dozen of Fiction. Half by Nobel Laureates

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  The Nobel Prize   In 2025, I read 50 books. Of those, thirteen were Fiction.  Of that that baker's dozen, six were by Nobel laureates ...

A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux, a Review

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  Annie Ernaux ’s A Man’s Place is a short book that carries the moral weight of a much larger one. It is nominally about her father—an unr...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

God, Human, Animal, Machine by Megan O’Gieblyn, A Review

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Megan O’Gieblyn ’s God, Human, Animal, Machine is not a book about technology so much as a book about belief—specifically, what happens to ...