Archive - Kvetch

Lampedusa's The Leopard

Beauty, decline, and the laments of Great Men

Sep 15 •

Kevin Rudd's The Avoidable War

Australia's 'Washington intellectual' on China

Sep 3 •

August 2024

What I've been up to

A new baby and a new fund

Aug 12 •

June 2024

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

Men from before the Flood

Jun 23

Memory, death and reflection with Richard Flanagan (and Sebastian Junger)

Jun 9 •

May 2024

Black agency and the grim sheen to black whimsy in Atlanta

May 26 •

Tasmanian Aborigines

The destruction of one people by another

May 19 •

April 2024

The Woman's Burden

The feminists are right

Apr 21 •

March 2024

Comancheria: Season 3

A new empire is born and the Comanches' last stand

Mar 30

A rare holiday celebrating total victory

Mar 24 •

Why doesn't Masters of the Air work?

Stories about bombers may be inherently claustrophobic and repetitive

Mar 17 •

Comancheria: Season 2

Rise of the Texan Ranger — el Tejano Diablo

Mar 10

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