Ukraine longs for its kidnapped children as the Rachel captain in “Moby Dick” longs for his son, lost at sea.
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Weeping for Ukraine’s Lost Children
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Manskinner Boris & Putin’s Terror Tactics
Russian atrocities in Ukraine bring to mind Boris the Manskinner, from Murakami’s “Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.”
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Trump Uses Genocidal Language
Trump’s use of the language of ethnic cleansing regarding the Kurds is not new. Clifton’s poem about cockroaches shows how dangerous it is.
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