A boy's-eye view of Vietnam's war

[...]why Freud cannot be dismissed, Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa talk about music, a 'trans' case for race and the human factor in analog SUCH A LOVELY LITTLE WAR Marcelino Truong, translated by David Homel Often rendered in watercolour-like strokes (in muddy greys and faded pinks), the look of this terrific graphic memoir consistently invokes sepia--and episodes at the very edge of memory, or belonging to another time and place. While young Marcel grew accustomed to exotic sights and a quick-changing atmosphere where innocent fun commingled with sudden gunshots and explosions, his father, a Vietnamese diplomat (and later interpreter for autocratic Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem), strove to reassure his wife and sons about the relatively benign "worrisome situation" just outside their temporary new apartment. French psychoanalyst and historian Roudinesco, a profound if clear-eyed admirer of Freud, argues there's good reason why psychoanalytic terminology--Freudian slips, the power of unconscious sex and death drives, ego, id and free association--is still commonplace in pop culture, and why Freud remains an enormous influence in literature, film and art. [...]the biographer anchors Freud to his time and place in a way he himself--for all his focus on "civilization and its discontents"--never managed. THE REVENGE OF ANALOG David Sax Two-thirds of the way through this book full of middle-aged, middle-class white people finding markets for products that remind them of their childhood (vinyl, board games, paper notebooks, etc.), a Detroiter at a dive bar downs a shot of whisky and tells David Sax, "We put...