Archive for April, 2008


Vonnegut’s armageddon (and semicolons) in retrospect

Some critics have characterized Kurt Vonnegut’s Armageddon in Retrospect as a disappointing epitaph, and I can see why. This collection of previously unpublished writings on war and peace doesn’t really cohere as a traditional anthology. But as a road map of the literary path Vonnegut followed from a POW-repatriation camp to the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five 23 years later, it is . . .

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Césaire dies

R.I.P. Aimé Césaire, Martinique poet, politician, humanist, and father of negritude.

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