Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2014: Youth, pt. I

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.  See Archives on that page for back issues.] It's a history journal. It's a philosophy journal. It's a history-of-philosophy-of-history journal. It's a chronicle of human existence.   L.Q. describes itself …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review four and last

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] This issue: Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review three Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review two Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review one [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.  See Archives on that page …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review three

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE or HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.  See Archives on that page for back issues.] The main part of any Lapham's Quarterly is Voices In Time, excerpts from history about the current theme.  Usually in three …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review two

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE for Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review one.] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.][Some of LQ’s contents are available free.  See Archives on that page for back issues.] L.Q. posts are for READERS.  And writers, who read of course.  I try to keep …

Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2014: Revolutions, partial review one

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review][Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.]     Cue the 20th century pop music group the Beatles perhaps? "Revolution" You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it's evolution Well, you know We …

Code Talker by Chester Nez and Judith Scheiss Avila

[CATEGORIES: Book Review, WWII, veterans.] Subtitled: "The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII", by Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila. Code talkers were Navajo Indians who developed an unbreakable English-Navajo-English code used while fighting the Japanese in WWII Pacific. This book is great storytelling. I had the …

Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2008: States of War (Final review)

[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] Oh. This IS nasty business. If you thought INTOXICATION (Winter 2013 issue) was an unpleasant topic "you ain't seen nothin' yet". Winter 2008: States Of War is Lewis Lapham's first issue and he pulls no punches. No tiptoeing into the public arena for this literary journal. Wasn't I …