Author name: James Fritz

In Julian F. Thompson’s 1983 novel, The Grounding of Group 6, five troubled teens are enrolled at a Vermont boarding school by their overburdened parents. Officially, they are to be rehabilitated and turned into upstanding young adults. Unofficially, their parents want them dead, and for the right price, the school accommodates them. Upon release, the […]

A giant feasting on his child’s corpse. Innocent civilians being gunned down by French soldiers. A colossus towering over a mass of fleeing people. Depictions of rape, assault, torture, gore, violence. Such was the work of Francisco Goya. Born in Spain during the mid-18th century, he lived through wars, famines, the deaths of his wife