War, Literature and the Arts

There’s a magazine of that title, published by the U.S. Air Force Academy. The new book by Paul West that I published last year was just named Editor’s Choice in the current issue. I’m proud of that.

Reviewer Lt. Col. James M. Meredith writes, “Paul West’s fiction stunningly and perpetually deals with violence, trauma, the conditions and nature of evil. The Immensity of the Here and Now does not shy from exploring and deciphering the vicious and randomly dangerous world that surrounds us.”

He adds, “West is a writer who still believes in the transcendent power of literature and art, which is why I join many in considering him our most vital living writer.”

It depends on your definition of ‘genocide’

New documents show that the Clinton administration knew about the massacres in Rwanda much earlier than it officially claimed to, and hid its collective head in the sand to avoid getting involved in another Somalia.

Plus, here’s a piece on the UN’s stonewalling of the plane crash that helped instigate the massacres. This one utterly boggles the mind.

I would love to hear from Samantha Power on this stuff. Anyone know how to reach her?