Moreover, Feldman contends that Christianity is by definition anti-Semitic and that because America is overwhelmingly Christian, a kind of cultural imperialism holds sway that is particularly offensive to Jews. The author builds his case both with documentation drawn from 2,000 years of history and his own observations as a Jew. In the good old days, wars were caused by some combination of greed, ambition and stupidity. But in this analysis of late 20th-century warfare, Gray posits that technoscience now plays an equal role in triggering armed conflict. War, he contends, is presented as a bloodless display of virtual reality that is as tidy as a Nintendo game.
War is very strong.
We must be stronger. Leigh Adelman lives in a suburb of New York City with her decent but unexciting husband and her three children. With deft use of the first person, Richards, in this debut novel, seduces us with the blandness of Leigh's life, then hooks us with omens of disruption to come. The message that just beyond where we're looking, something wild is preparing to enter and shake us up . . . And soon after that, she rekindles an affair with Fowler, who was her first love and who is now dying of Lou Gehrig's disease.