Red Storm Rising

(This post is one in a series about the best books ever written. The first post in the series is here.)

As a hardcore pacifist and anti-military activist, this...

Sophie's World

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This is the book that I always answer with...

Snow Country

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There are many books by Yasunari Kawabata floating around...

Divergent

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Divergent, the first of the series by the same name...

Angels and Demons

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I did indeed like Angels and Demons enough...

Writing a Future?

As many of you are no doubt aware, I teach creative writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels, sometimes to high school students, too. I believe that there...

a life at the board

what once was black

you turned to white

with each stroke of chalk

leaving its mark

not simply on vertical surfaces

depicting curves

and angles

but the brightness of understanding on minds

clouded with...

Riding the Moment

I see a woman riding a horse through the village. She has incredible concentration as the horse gallops down the narrow street. I can't help thinking how impressive...

Stand By Our Troops?

I am a revolutionary pacifist. I believe in the absolute and unmitigated wrongness of conflict and violence and that it should be completely eliminated and dismissed from...

A Culture of Fists

Throughout the ages, we have been confronted with human nature being called sinful, something that we must fight against and confess and be absolved of by supernatural...

SheSays Include Us

Last night people from all walks of life (mostly of the female persuasion but not, in a word, exclusively so) gathered in Manchester for the latest SheSaysManchester [@shesaysmcr]...

on abortion

there is no shortage of writing on the subject of reproductive rights of late and given my genderless status, i have a rather unusual position on many issues of...