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… I ought to have as many books as I could tote. But it has come to my attention that I have too many books because, as … of reality…. Training ourselves to pay intimate and embodied attention to the very pulse of life within and around … finds silly—to use one of Auden’s favorite words—probably points to a bad or, at least, senseless habit. In other …

… for a cottage. Fifty feet below lay a natural harbor. At a comfortable swimming distance from shore were three shoals, … as a single property.) By this time, my grandfather had died, but he had approved her plan. The islands would be … turning, at the age of fifty-nine, to fiction. As Watt points out, only a society such as Defoe’s own, well …

… 9 Sencu Iela Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia (IStockPhoto.com / Birgit Kutzera) . On the night of August 3, 1944—in … first line of dialogue in Heart of Darkness  is: “And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark … was to read this letter to my mother only if my grandfather died. And though it would certainly make for a lovely …

… women, with whom they avoided public contact. Their foot soldiers, the “cannon fodder” of the offensives they would … that prayed in their own fervent way for the end of Communism . Most of these madrassa “scholars” received about … who had taken up positions with the Taliban. My colleague also saw a pervasive Pakistani presence in Kandahar. The …

… when approximately seven per one hundred thousand women died giving birth, maternal-mortality rates—mothers who die … are simply not enough. The data—our woeful mortality rate—points to that fact.  Childbirth is active, physical, … or hold it close.  birth childbirth narrative mortality 26-37 By Julia Cooke Photography by Alice Proujansky …