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...everything he's ever read." Few heads anywhere, including Japan, have taken in as much Japanese literature as Keene's. His forthcoming memoir, Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan, tells the unlikely story of how a boy born in Brooklyn in 1922 grew increasingly drawn to a country that many in his generation would know only as an enemy to fear and conquer. Lovingly illustrated by the artist Akira Yamaguchi, the book limns a life inseparably linked to its dominant passion. "I sometimes think," Keene writes, "that if, as the result of an accident...
This isn't the stuff from which stark conclusions can be drawn, I know. In search of more clarity, I called Jim Leach, the former Republican Congressman from Iowa who has long had a reputation as one of Capitol Hill's deepest thinkers...
...work as heavy as “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.” In her first book published since taking the University’s helm, Drew G. Faust returns to the Civil War, whose women and slaveholders have previously drawn her historian’s eye. This time, she tackles death, or, as she calls it, the Good Death. More precisely, it’s the soldier’s attempt to maintain dignity when confronted with the war’s greatest indignity, anonymous death. Even when writing about the unknown...
Hovering over all of them is the despicable state security officer, Safwat Shakir, who is only too eager to ruin the lives of government critics for a pat on the back. Egypt's ruler - unnamed, but clearly drawn to resemble President Hosni Mubarak - makes a brief, pivotal appearance, too. In one scene, an aide scolds a photographer for asking the President to move "a little to the right" for a better picture, telling him: "The whole of Egypt would move while our revered President remains standing where...
Although the story is fiction, Chicago is drawn from the two years that Al Aswany spent in the city during the mid-'80s while earning a dentistry degree from the University of Illinois. When he wasn't hitting the books, he would go out into the city - to a gay church, a black-pride organization, the Chicago Symphony - in search of American culture and ideas for a future novel. Nowadays, he could get by happily without his second income, but Al Aswany says he has no intention of giving up his dentistry practice, since filling cavities and performing root canals...