Review Essay: Tom Cruise’s Unwanted Masterpiece

Valkyrie:  Tom Cruise’s Unwanted Masterpeice Valkyrie is rich movie, proud and dark and grieving, offered as a gift to a nation hanging by a thread, at the time of year when it seems even the sun itself can be defeated, not only a terrific thriller but a richly nuanced masterpiece of moral and emotional complexity. [...]

Perfume and the Memory of War

I just noticed that the great perfumes are French, usually either just pre-Great War or between the two World Wars…  This essay followed.  It was first published on Military.com in the Warfighter’s Forum, then led to my speaking engagement at Brown University’s Front Line, First Person:  Iraq War Stories Conference.  Perfume and the Memory of [...]