Ken IlgunasDec 25, 2017Best Books I read in 2017Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) I’d already read P&P, and I was already thinking that I was done with old English lit., so I...
Ken IlgunasDec 23, 2017“The Last Jedi” ReviewThere will be spoilers. 1. It was a complete waste a time with hardly a redeeming quality. 2. There was no chemistry between any of the...
Ken IlgunasDec 18, 2017On mean signs and our lousy democracy[I wrote this essay a few years ago when I was living in North Carolina. It was for my photo blog, notrespassingsigns.blogspot.com. I...
Ken IlgunasDec 11, 2017The Big Forces TheoryA little more than a week ago, Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos, called a political opponent “Pocahontas” at a ceremony honoring Native...
Ken IlgunasNov 21, 2017The Scottish DesertThere is great beauty in the wild, solitary Highlands, but it can be a haunting sort of beauty. You could walk for miles and never see...
Ken IlgunasNov 10, 2017The Value of the National Petroleum ReserveChristopher Solomon has a lovely piece in NYT‘s Sunday Review. I have lived near the National Petroleum Reserve (a cold and undignified...
Ken IlgunasAug 2, 2017The making of “This Land Is Our Land”So I recently finished my third book, This Land Is Our Land, to be published in the spring of 2018 by Dutton, a Penguin Random House...
