Modris Eksteins

“Humanitarian bombs,” “ethical war,” and “surgical strikes””it is Orwellian Newspeak such as this, accompanying recent military action undertaken by Western liberal states, that incenses Tzvetan Todorov and fuels his latest work, Hope and Memory: Lessons from the . . . . Continue Reading »

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays By Czeslaw Milosz Edited by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 272 pages, $30 Who is Czeslaw Milosz? Poet extra­ ordinary, of course, regarded by some as the greatest living poet; Polish-Lithuanian by birth and education, . . . . Continue Reading »