by Charles Cameron | May 7, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which the Islamic State is nicely viewed through the lens of WB Yeats ] . My review of Jessica Stern & JM Berger‘s book, ISIS: State of Terror, just came out in tbe Takshashila Institution‘s magazine, Pragati....
by Isaac Stone Fish | Oct 17, 2014 | Monitor
Suki Kim’s memoir about teaching in an elite North Korean school run by evangelical missionaries highlights the dangers and absurdities of life in a closed society.
by Lynn C. Rees | Sep 5, 2014 | Monitor
[reviewed by Lynn C. Rees] As The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts nears its end and appeals to Geoffrey of Monmouth as a source of historical truth proliferate, even the most oblivious reader starts to get the joke:...
by zen | Aug 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Orientalist by Tom Reiss Some biographies are as much about the era or the milieu as the man. The Orientalist is one of them. This is not to say that Tom Reiss has written a bad book. On the contrary, it is an...
by zen | Jul 17, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Dr. Chet Richards had some kind words to say about my review of American Spartan the other day and added some Boydian strategic analysis to the saga of Major Jim Gant to boot: Zen Pundit on American Spartan ….As...
