An anthology of posts in In That Howling Infinite on matters American

History and the Arts

• The Bard in the Badlands – Hell is empty and the devils are here
• The Bard in the Badlands 2 – Shakespeare in a divided America
• The Twilight of the Equine Gods – Farewell to the horse
• The last rains came gently – Steinbeck’s dustbowl ballad
• The Sport of Kings – CE Morgan’s “great American novel”
• Tales of Yankee Power
• Rebel Yell
• Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold – 1968 revisited
• Phil Och’s Chicago blues 
• Looking for Lehrer
• The Strange Death of Sam Cooke
• Legends, bibles, plagues – Bob Dylan’s Nobel lecture
• Blind Willie McTell – Bob Dylan’s Americana
• Cross the Green Mountain – Bob Dylan’s Americana
• Still tangled up in Bob
• Lost in the rain with no direction home – Dylan’s poem for Woody
• I hear America singing – happy birthday, Walt Whitman
• Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold – 1968 revisited 
• A cowboy key – how the west was sung
• The Ballad of Denton Crocker – a Vietnam elegy 
• Tim Page’s War – a photographer’s Vietnam journey 
• Journey’s end – photographer Tim Page’s wild ride 
• The Shoah and America’s Shame – Ken Burns’ sorrowful masterpiece 

Politics

• The Ricochet of Trump’s Counter-revolution
• Deep in the Heart of Texas
• The Loss of American Virtue 
• Why Melania looks so sad, and other stories
• Allende’s Desk and Osama’s Pyjamas
• The Man with the Plan – the Trump administration’s Middle East policy
• The Deal of the Century is designed to fail
• Clouded Vision – no peace, no plan, no Palestine, no point
• Messing with the Mullahs – America’s phoney war?
• Bob Dylan’s 115th dream – a Jerusalem reverie 
• Land of the fearful – home of the heavily armed
• Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow – judgement in Kabul  

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