Heroism Was Still Possible

Let it stand uncontested that the term “cultural appropriation” is political correctness of the cheapest and most manipulative kind. Still, it is ridiculous that neither of the great Spanish Civil War anthologies published in English features a single Spanish writer—not Murray Sperber's And I Remember Spain, not Valentine Cunningham's superior Spanish Front. Arthur Koestler, George Orwell, Andre Malraux, yes. Ernest Hemingway, inevitably. But no Spaniards. Whose war was it, anyway?