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Category: Book Reviews

Asia/Book Reviews/Comments

“1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh” and “The Blood Telegram”: A Review

Posted on March 2022 by Alex Abarca

I. 50 Years Since Independence, 50 Years Since Genocide  December 17, 2021, marked the 50th anniversary of the creation of the country of Bangladesh. ...

Book Reviews

Jason Lyall’s “Divided Armies”

Posted on April 2020 by Henry Suckow-Ziemer

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 ...

Arts Column/Book Reviews/Comments

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh – Genocide, Resistance, and Revelations for Today

Posted on March 2020 by Yicheng Zhang

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 ...

Book Reviews/Campus/Weekly Update

Samantha Power Revisits Yale

Posted on October 2019 by Samantha Larkin

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...

Book Reviews/Campus

Review: “Democracy and Dissent”

Posted on April 2019 by admin

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...

Book Reviews

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Refugees”

Posted on April 2019 by admin

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...

Book Reviews

Lawrence Freedman’s “Ukraine and the Art of Strategy”

Posted on March 2019 by admin

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 ...

Book Reviews

Review of the Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between

Posted on January 2019 by admin

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...

Book Reviews

Review: On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis

Posted on July 2018 by admin

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 ...

Book Reviews

A Contrarian’s Life in Words: The Autobiography of Maria Eugenia in Review

Posted on April 2018 by admin

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, “...

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