Carlos Skliar (© Copyright Fasinarm 2009) I'd thought that a large shipment of materials was wending its way east, but a snafu mean...

Panetta, in Iraq This is the way the war ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.  And though American troops are still there, though in s...

"Throughout the book, adopt a sotto voice , in conspiracy with the reader, and a sad I-expected-so-much tone. Establish early on th...

Recently I finished and sent off a draft of an essay I'd been working on for a good portion of the summer. I don't actually write th...