“1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh” and “The Blood Telegram”: A Review
I. 50 Years Since Independence, 50 Years Since Genocide December 17, 2021, marked the 50th anniversary of the creation of the country of Bangladesh. ...
Category: Book Reviews
Jason Lyall’s “Divided Armies”
What makes an army succeed or fail on the battlefield? Too often this question is answered in general terms; superior technology, greater numbers, a larger and ...
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh – Genocide, Resistance, and Revelations for Today
Written by: Yicheng Zhang, Tufts University ’21 The novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was written by the Austrian-Jewish writer Franz Werfel in ...
Samantha Power Revisits Yale
Written by: Samantha Larkin By one o’clock, a dozen students had already taken the most coveted seats in Yale Law School’s Levinson Hall. Soon to be joined by c...
Review: “Democracy and Dissent”
Written by Mary Orsak On April 6, over 50 students and alumni protested University President Peter Salovey during his speech honoring 50 years of Asian American...
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Refugees”
Written by Chase Finney Viet Thanh Nguyen (pronounced “Viet Tang When”) set a high standard for himself after his first novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer P...
Lawrence Freedman’s “Ukraine and the Art of Strategy”
Written by Henry Suckow-Ziemer Vladimir Putin is a name that likely conjures a number of images to mind for U.S. citizens. The bare-chested strongman who swept ...
Review of the Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
Written by Juanita Garcia In the Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between, author Hisham Matar chronicles his quest for and reconciliation of his Libyan i...
Review: On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
John Lewis Gaddis’ most recent book certainly puts the ‘grand’ in Grand Strategy. It spans roughly 2,500 years of history and draws upon the works and deeds of ...
A Contrarian’s Life in Words: The Autobiography of Maria Eugenia in Review
Written by Andrew Song Maria Eugenia’s narrative of her experience as a M-19 guerrillera is not a story about military conflict and guerilla strategy. Rather, “...