Fort Totten

Criticism

The Years of War: ‘Military History’ and the Shaping of the Soul by Malik Wilson

December 2026

In this brief monograph, Malik Wilson, Takoma’s founder, runs down the line to describe how the years of reading and learning about war and statesmen, calamity and folly, destruction and possibility, established a kind of lament of the possible, and probable. In reading seriously and tenderly about tragedy and courage, weakness and strength, a sense of oneself – in private, sequestered, away from trouble – can be tested out, drawn together. The author intrigues how the stories of war and peace we read also read us, establishing our own small heroisms, our need for collaborate change, and the universal search to find a grand cause worth fighting for.

Oral History

12 Ordinary Stories 

December 2026

An oral history/documentary of local veterans, including those who served in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Desert Storm. 

History

Grandfathers' Service

December 2026

As the Greatest Generation, the last remnants, dies out, and as their children, the last to remember them, near a final age, it becomes ever more important to recall a service rendered, given. In Grandfathers' Service, Malik Wilson remembers and considers the contributions of his own grandfathers, who both served in World War II.