Stories By Jascha Kessler
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dianetics: A Dialogue
September 3, 2024“You clear me? I clear you? It’s not hypnotism, if that’s what scares you. You’re fully...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Watchman, What of the Night?
August 16, 2024The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Long Day’s Day with James Dickey
August 15, 2024“Ah yes,” he whispered to me, ”I spent one helluva long night wrassling all over the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Roses & Bulbul Birds
August 15, 2024What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Nick Bottom’s Blessing
August 13, 2024The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice....
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Lola! Lola! Lola!
August 12, 2024The notion of Art's secular epiphany takes us to Vladimir Nabokov, a reader of Joyce. As...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Stemming from … Nowhere?
August 11, 2024To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence's genius, it was...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
No Heroes Need Apply
August 10, 2024By the time we come to T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway in the...
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Germany
Frau Braun and The Tiger of Auschwitz
August 9, 2024The principal accused was an Auschwitz commandant, one Wilhelm Boger, whose sobriquet was “The Tiger of...
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Anthropology
Book Review: Myths from Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
August 8, 2024I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me...