Monthly Archives: November 2022

Reviewing “A Hero of Our Time”

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Joel D. Hirst

Mikhail Lermontov straddled the mountain ridge of Russian creative culture, between poetry of the ‘intelligentsia’ during the days of high empire and the period of prose that both was led by and inspired the revolutionary time of Russia’s coming of … Continue reading →

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700 Pages of Horror

Posted on November 21, 2022 by Joel D. Hirst

I just finished “The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence”, Martin Meredith’s imposing tome that tells the story of post-colonial, ‘independent’ Africa. There is no way to write this review, except in the spirit that Meredith … Continue reading →

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William Saroyan – A Daring Young Man

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Joel D. Hirst

William Saroyan is the most well-known American/Armenian writer. His family arrived, like so many of the Armenian diaspora, fleeing the genocide at the tail of end of the Ottoman Empire. Saroyan had the seeds of greatness and genius. I think … Continue reading →

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