Poetry has always been present in times of war but with mixed success at improving conditions.
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Literature in Time of War
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged burning books, Ernest Hemingway, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hitler, Homer, Iliad, King John, Louis Untemeyer, Modern American and British Poetry, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Robert Graves, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Vladimir Putin as Sauron
Putin resembles Sauron in various unsettling ways–and like as with Sauron, the world had a chance to stop him early and failed.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Hitler, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Ukraine invasion, Vladimir Putin Comments closed
The Novel that Upended the USSR
Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” so effectively aided Khrushchev’s destalinization project that it would be banned by Brezhnev.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, destalinization, Gulag, Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union Comments closed
Estonia Calls, Obama Answers
Obama seemed to be responding to an Estonian poet in his NATO speech.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Denunciation", Estonia, Marie Under, Russia, USSR Comments closed
