History has witnessed many different kinds of revolution, bloody and tame, but never quite anything like the “Velvet Revolution” that took place in Czechoslovakia beginning in the mid-1960s with the “Prague Spring,” a premature...
In Mad magazine years ago there used to be a running cartoon called “Spy Vs. Spy,” the adventures of a white spy versus a black spy who spent a page or so in each...
Either you love it, or you hate it. Sushi, that is. Raw fish, seaweed, sticky rice, soy sauce, and wasabi. I have a brother-in-law from the Midwest who positively gags at the very thought...
In 1965, Kenneth Rexroth poet, translator, painter, and guiding angel to the Beat Generation brought out a slim volume of translations, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (ISBN: 0-8112-0370-0) that soon became a huge...
