topic: World War II

Stateless in Ukraine
November 13, 2014
For a small community of ethnic Turks who have lived peacefully in Ukraine for twenty-five years, the current conflict is allowing the...
Reviews
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
May 19, 2014
The Wind Rises is the latest animated film by the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the 73-year-old creator of such classic works as...
Reviews
War's Incision
February 4, 2014
In his debut collection of poems Topaz , Brian Komei Dempster writes: “I feel war’s incision.” These poems cut open the past line by line,...
Poetry
The Moment Before Tears Would Well Up
March 23, 2013
Editor's Preface In the standard Western narrative, World War 2 began on September 3, 1939, when the inchoate Allied Powers invaded...
Reviews
Anderson's Slow Boat to China
September 25, 2012
The sixth film from American writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, The Maste r tracks Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an animalistic,...