Bernice Grohskopf

There I learned how faces fall apart, How fear looks out from under the eyelids, How deep are the hieroglyphics Cut by suffering on people's cheeks. Akhmatova Last summer when I was in Moscow, a play called Moscow Kitchens was running. [...]

In 1856, when William James, 19th-century philosopher and psychologist, was 14 years old, he and his brother Henry were living in Paris with their parents, their brothers, and sister Alice. The James family had been abroad for a year, moving from c [...]

Going to See the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life. By George Garrett. Edited by Jeb Livingood. Texas Review Press. $18.95 paper. George Garrett's writing can't be categorized. The range of subjects, styles and interests in his novels, stories [...]

How to Be Alone, By Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $24.00. How to Be Alone is a collection of Jonathan Franzen's essays commenting on contemporary values, manners, tastes, customs and morals. His assessments are often negative, conve [...]