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The Just-World Fallacy
With the recent openness from Mitt Romney discussing the 47% of US citizens who do not pay taxes, I decided it might be a good time to review the Just-World Fallacy. I think it is important to an...
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Berlin Stories
It is common to hear comparisons made and repudiated between events in this country and in Germany leading to the National Socialist takeover. Perhaps the problem is a misunderstanding that some...
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Going All the Way
What is on the other side? Julien Gracq’s award winning novel The Opposing Shore is an interesting and mentally stimulating narrative of boundaries and what happens when we hibernate behind those...
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An Observation from Kurt Vonnegut
From the postumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s miscellaneous writing, Armageddon In Retrospect: Over one hundred thousand non-combatants and a magnificent city destroyed by bombs dropped wide of the...
View ArticleVila-Matas At Documenta 13
Did Enrique Vila-Matas attend Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany? Was he an invited artist, albeit an unusual selection being a writer? Is his novel The Illogic of Kassel a fictionalized accounting of...
View ArticleHow German Is It?
This is a novel that definitely benefits from a second reading. Walter Abish asks the question, How German Is It, by presenting a deftly crafted narrative of a modern Germany by brushing the story...
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