The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Let me begin with the obvious. I do not actually expect you to actually read these. The dead, as Kipling observed, are only borne in mind fo...

I continue to work my way through the Mike Duncan "Revolutions" podcast series. I recently got through his series on Simon Bolivar...

I have always had an uneasy relationship with political labels. I find that people who enjoy self-describing as having some kind of politica...

Let me ask you a question that has both nothing and everything to do with Haiti. How many people do you think died in the war in the Democra...

[This was my entry for this year's Passage Prize . Didn't get short listed this time, which either means my poetry is getting worse,...