No doubt Kundera bore responsibility for his own art, his own development and his own mistakes. However, the greater, deeper blame for his unhappy trajectory and fate lies above all with Stalinism.
The quick judgment against Samantha is a stark contrast with the failure to prosecute anyone associated with the poisoning of Flint's water in 2014.
This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of Three Soldiers, the first celebrated novel by the prolific American novelist John Dos Passos.
The stories in BASS 2020 were selected by novelist Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975), a supporter of Hillary Clinton whose most recent work is Rodham (2020), an alternate history political novel.
With the Democratic Whitmer administration pushing for a March 1 reopening date for public schools, teachers and students face not only the danger of the coronavirus, but lead and legionella bacteria from unflushed water systems.
