Stories By Jascha Kessler
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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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Mythology
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...
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Fiction Reviews
Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels by Giorgio Manganelli
August 6, 2024Americans in this therapy-mad epoch tend to take, rather mistake, an “experience” for that fateful “event.”...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Between Alpha and Omega: Some Observations on Poetry and Poetry’s Task in our Time
July 23, 2024We lived heretofore in the multitude of villages scattered world-wide amongst the ruins of the Tower...
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Anthropology
Archival Culture(s)
July 22, 2024It is scarcely news that in a vast, pluralistic country like the United States, minorities should...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X
April 8, 2024X’s short 21 chapters of informal prose mix the personal-poignant and social-pathetic. They illuminate the pathology...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Second Book of the Tao
December 21, 2023The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ I think, therefore...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Travels of Marco Polo Translated by W. Marsden
December 21, 2023It seems that world is more fantastic than our own travel brochures today can suggest for...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Whatever — Whatever?
December 19, 2023One wades through an awful lot of pretentious chatter published when a new production of a...
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Movies
Who is Rita, What Was She?
December 15, 2023Rita murmured in that, silky, sultry voice from so very long ago, “Enough crap, big boy....