A foray into literary short stories leads to a small taste of enlightenment. Buddha and sinner are both forced to feel compassion and suffering.
FINDERS KEEPERS? — Maybe Not for Europe
Western imperialism gave European museums a booty of treasure. Now Egypt wants some of that treasure to come back to where it was made.
FIRES ON THE PLAIN – Part One: The Book
(part one: The Book) examines Shohei Ooka’s 1957 novel Fires on the Plain, the first person account of a Japanese soldier’s attempts to escape death in the Filipino jungle during the final days of World War II.
