A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

LESSONS OF WAR

Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds: A Novel (New York, Boston, & London: Little, Brown, 2012) ("The war tried to kill us in the spring.... Then, in the summer, the war tried to kill us as the heat blanched all color from the plains.... The war had killed thousands by September.... We hardly noticed a change when September came. But I know now that everything that will ever matter in my life began then...." Id. at 3-4.).