You brace for the worst, you make the most of the good, you keep going

Sunday column

No matter how much you read about World War II, there is always more. More suffering, more deprivation, more cruelty beyond belief. And somehow, too, the human capacity to endure.

That war keeps pulling me back. Three novels in recent weeks, as well as a book about the aftermath in Europe, another about Japan at war, more TV, more films.

I bid you a happy…