As I read David Lebedoffs latest book, The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War, I began to think of George Orwell as a real-life Dr. Rieux, the hero of Camus The Plague, whose heroism suggests that it is possible to be a saint ...
Once upon a time, and a very long time ago it was, Flann OBrien (aka Myles na Gopaleen, aka Brian ONolan, his real name, sometimes gaelicized to Brian Ó Nualláin) saw a woman hopping along the road in the Irish countryside. What was interesting about ...
The Seventh Well: A Novel by Fred Wander translated by Michael Hofmann (Norton, 160 pages, $23.95) This is an utterly beautiful novel about life in Nazi concentration camps, but the author, Fred Wander, nevertheless portrays the horror of those ...
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Knopf, 346 pages, $27.95) "The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, an estimated 620,000, is approximately equal to the total American fatalities in the Revolution, the War of ...
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