Category Archives: World Issues

Here, Right Matters: An American Story – Alexander Vindman

Posted on August 30, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Regardless of any impact on the president, the domestic and foreign policy consequences, or personal costs, I had no choice but to report what I’d heard. That duty to report is a critical component of U.S. … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Bios and Memoirs, History, Immigration, Non-fiction, Our Best, Politics, World Issues | Tagged Donald Trump, ethics, immigration, impeachment, military, Russia, Soviet Union | Comments Off

Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir – Rajiv Mohabir

Posted on July 25, 2021 by J D Jung

(reviewed by JD Jung) “I wanted to stop hiding. I wanted to tell them that I was queer. Queer sexually, queer religiously, queer by caste, and queer countried.” Rajiv Mohabir never felt that he belonged. As a resident of Central … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Immigration, Modern Literary Fiction, World Issues | Tagged class, culture, Guyanese, immigration, India, LGBTQ, multiculture, political activism, race, sexuality | Comments Off

Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon – Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko

Posted on July 10, 2021 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “In a short four years, QAnon metastasized from a fringe movement on anonymous message boards into a cultlike movement, with millions of followers around the world…and practically seized control of the Republican Party.” What actually is … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, History, Non-fiction, Our Best, Politics, World Issues | Tagged conspiracy theories, psychology, QAnon, terrorism | Comments Off

The People of Ostrich Mountain- Ndirangu Githaiga

Posted on February 18, 2021 by J D Jung

(reviewed by Ann Onymous ) This book takes its title from the view of Mt. Kilimanjaro from a distance. To some there appear to be ostriches up at the top but when we look closer, we each see different things. … Continue reading →

Posted in Immigration, Modern Literary Fiction | Tagged family, friendship, gender, immigration, Kenya, race | Comments Off

Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border – Octavio Solis

Posted on April 19, 2020 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…the shit on the border never changes. There will always be those who want to come across, and those who want to keep them where they are…I think it’s really a condition of our culture: it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Immigration, World Issues | Tagged memoirs, Mexican-American, short stories | 1 Comment

Rain and Embers – Ali Nuri

Posted on November 21, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “my father spared my eyes from Saddam’s sins so I could experience real horror, torture in the hands of my parent searing my skin at the age of seven I found his redemption— why can’t I … Continue reading →

Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Immigration, Poetry, World Issues | Tagged immigration, Iraq, poetry | Comments Off

My Neighbour Osama Bin Laden – Yslar Tatuky

Posted on August 31, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned What happens when one puts Osama bin Laden and Salman Rushdie at the same dinner table? Yslar Tatuky is such a person as he has grand, though idealistic, hopes for humanity in his novel, My … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Fiction, Humor & Satire, Philosophical reads, Politics, Slavic Literature, World Issues, World Literature | Tagged Georgia, Marx, Osama bin Laden, philosophy, Salman Rushdie, Soviet Union | Comments Off

Torn from the World: A Guerrilla’s Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico – John Gibler

Posted on July 15, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “This word: disappeared. They have so many ways of erasing you, “of trying to make you doubt the truth of your own life.” After five days, after every two hours, after only having felt a world … Continue reading →

Posted in History, World Issues | Tagged dissent, freedom fighters, guerrilla warfare, Mexico, poverty, sociology | Comments Off

House of Beauty- Melba Escobar (Author), Elizabeth Bryer (Translator)

Posted on February 13, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I also hate the ladies of Bogotá among whom I count myself, though I do all I can to stand apart. I hate their habit of using the term “Indians” to refer to people they consider … Continue reading →

Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Latin American Literature, World Issues, World Literature | Tagged Bogota, Colombia, crime fiction, mysogeny, racism | Comments Off