Volume 2 of Victor Lieberman’s Strange Parallels, Southeast Asia in Global Context, Circa 800-1830 is out. Volume 1 is one of the most extraordinary books of historical scholarship I have ever read. It builds upon and expands vastly theoretical and conceptual approaches pioneered by Anthony Reid. It’s been too long since I have read [...]
Hubert Humphrey A Biography By Carl Solberg 1984, Norton & Norton, New York Borealis Books edition, 2003 The Vietnam Project began with a simple desire to know what happened during the Vietnam War. By the time I got around to writing this blogh, to formalizing it as a ‘project’, my interest had run riot [...]
11.2 And so when the time came to visit some of these places I had worked out plans. I didn’t go to Penn since I saw no reason to move to Philly. It was close enough to at least test the waters of commuting. Ditto New Haven. That left Baltimore, Ithaca and Providence. “You wouldn’t [...]
My old friend Al Giordano at The Field has written a provokative and moving piece about Penny Arcade, the performance artist. The review of her career is fascinating, but more to the point for me are his thoughts on art and audience, on media and market, on being a working class artist and autodidact and [...]
11.1 I washed up the plates and poured a glass of wine and took off all my clothes and lay in bed. I put on TV and sat in the dark watching, waiting. It was Iron Chef, not my favorite, so I watched This Old House and mostly gazed out the window at the helicopters [...]
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