E. Rogan on the PLO Plane Hijackings
Below are two exerts from Eugene Rogan’s The Arabs: a History. a wonderful book, if dense, that starts by establishing the baseline for beginning to understand the transnational and multi-century struggle of the former subjects of the Ottoman Empire. Important for anyone wanting to see what mess the world got into when it popped an…
::The Books of ’21::
part the 2 I think this essay will be in three parts, and I know that’s a lie. There will be 3 updates titled “The Books of ’21” with some number of ::colons:: shielding them on the flanks. There will, however, be two books that have found their way into their own special pages. Yes,…
A Garden Update: May ’22
If you read my first part of Books of ’21, you might have noticed I spent some time talking about my yard. While I do feel years past my temporal age in body wiriness, I am not yet at the middle-aged dad-desire to have a patch of ground that is perfectly in my control. Meta-textually,…
:The Books of 2021:
So this Goth1 walks into a Roman bookstore, right? A Long Overdue Essay Part 1 Author’s Note: This essay has been in the incubator for far too long- four five months, in fact. I wanted it to get out at the beginning of the year, since deadlines are some of the best mental lubricant for…
Recycling Bin: The Farmer’s Life for Me
Let’s start something new with something old. A new series will be forthcoming, but for our introduction, I’ll share an essay I wrote almost exactly two years ago. Many of the ideas present in this messy piece are going to be appearing in many of the essays I’ve been working on the last few months.…
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