Patriotic Dissent Oceanography (seas & oceans) It’s a Gift

It’s a Gift

Kubi lived quietly in a small farm in a Vietnamese village

there was a big party on the farm to celebrate the Vietnamese New Year

Ayobami sets off on an exciting journey with a fundamental objective: to learn to read and write

was among the essential chroniclers of the city […] Boom Times is both a celebration of a prodigious talent and a valediction for a lost soul

Patriotic Dissent Oceanography (seas & oceans) It’s a GiftWhat is patriotism in our volatile age? This incendiary work by Danny Sjursen is a personal cry from the heart by a once model U. S. Army officer and West Point graduate who became a military dissenter while still on active duty. Set against the backdrop of the terror wars of the last two decades, Sjursen asks whether there is a proper space for patriotism that renounces entitled exceptionalism and narcissistic jingoism. Once a burgeoning believer and