Mirsky, Stuart W.

Stuart W. Mirsky, a former bureaucrat and current author, has written an historical novel about Norsemen in North America circa the eleventh century (The King of Vinland's Saga), a tale of Holocaust survival during World War II (A Raft on the River) and a book of social and political commentary (Irregularities: Tidal Flows and Politics Along the Rockaway Shore). His most recent is Choice and Action, a series of essays focused on ethical and metaethical questions as encountered in the modern Western philosophical tradition. Conceived initially as a response to a series of questions posed by a y...