Whatever gains are secured by war, it is loss the veteran remembers most keenly. Only a fool or a fraud sentimentalizes the cruel and merciless reality of war." Today McCain, as chairman of the Senate ...

Female solidarity drives Palomero’s follow-up to the celebrated, similarly sisterhood-themed “Schoolgirls,” but without any glib girl-power sloganeering: A tough, unsweetened work of social realism ...

But he never sentimentalizes the way the family responded, nor does he airbrush his own life. There were hard patches, guilt (if now largely worked through), raw memories: bankruptcy, a failed ...