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Rewriting the Covid Narrative by Nowick Gray This month marks the release of two new books offering fresh takes on the whole traumatic Covid catastrophe. In subverting the dominant narrative, both books enlist the force of creative truth-telling and demonstrate the undeniable power of the human heart. Both also supply…
In Part 1 of Rome vs. the Barbarians, I introduce Thomas Mann’s little-known political essays from World War I Germany (Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man), painting the perennial battle not so much between West and East, or democracy and autocracy, but between progress and tradition, the future and the past,…
Review of Talking Spirit: Essays and Inspirations by Mankh (Walter E. Harris, III - Allbook-books.com) You’d be hard-pressed to find a topic not included in Nowick Gray’s recent extensive collection of writings, Talking Spirit: Essays & Inspirations. In the Food For Thought department, this book is a banquet worth attending…
The Dilemma of the Nonpolitical Man Reading Thomas Mann’s Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, one is struck as by the revelation of a déjà vu. In the context of wartime Germany (1914–18), the novelist saw the world forces in archetypal conflict, as painted earlier by Dostoyevsky (1877), who witnessed Germany’s…
