by zen | Aug 16, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian first came to my attention back in 2000 when noted literary critic, Yale professor Harold Bloom was interviewed on...
by zen | Jan 30, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] We at ZP would like to thank Colonel Stan Coerr for his permission to reprint this essay, written on the eve of his retirement last July, after a quarter century of of military service in the Marine Corps Reserve and on...
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 Charles Cameron | Jun 4, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the four goats go with the woman, the cow called Bessie belongs with Hiyakawa’s Ladder of Abstraction ] . ** My friend the anthropologist Peter van der Werff recently wrote this paragraph about a woman he met in India: The very poor...
by zen | Feb 20, 2013 | Monitor
HIGH GROUND Hat tip to Kanani Fong of Kitchen Dispatch At the Siskel Center, 164 N State St, Chicago. IL. 60601 (312) 846-2600 The award -winning film HIGH GROUND : Since 2002, almost 50,000 U.S. soldiers have returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan with their lives...
