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Finding My Grandfather, and Myself, on the Battlefields of the Spanish Civil War
This summer I stood with some 80 people on a hilltop outside Madrid, our guide narrating the 1937 battle between the fascists and Republicans for the olive groves and crumpled tan valleys below. My...
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Syria and the Failure of the Multicultural American Left
Among the countless heartbreaking images that came out of the earthly inferno of Aleppo, one remains particularly haunting: that of a grief-stricken mother cradling the lifeless body of her child...
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Painter William Pachner, ‘Esquire’ Illustrator and Famous Portraitist of...
The artist William Pachner, in his 103rd year, was lying in his sun room in upstate New York, his tiny, frail frame angled toward his backyard meadow and the dark green slopes of Overlook Mountain. He...
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Javier Cercas' 'The Impostor' and the Lies We Tell
There are the lies we tell others, and the lies we tell ourselves. When the two don’t coincide—when a liar lies to himself, or is somehow shielded from recognizing himself as a liar—something strange...
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