Stories By Jascha Kessler
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dianetics: A Dialogue
January 9, 2026“You clear me? I clear you? It’s not hypnotism, if that’s what scares you. You’re fully...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Watchman, What of the Night?
December 20, 2025The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely...
Biography
A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
December 19, 2025“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
Politics
Roses & Bulbul Birds
December 19, 2025What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nick Bottom’s Blessing
December 17, 2025The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lola! Lola! Lola!
December 16, 2025The notion of Art's secular epiphany takes us to Vladimir Nabokov, a reader of Joyce. As...
Non-Fiction Reviews
No Heroes Need Apply
December 15, 2025By the time we come to T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the...
Religion
Stemming from … Nowhere?
December 14, 2025To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence's genius, it was...
Israel
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
December 14, 2025The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
December 12, 2025I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...
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