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… and while everybody cut gym and skipped social studies and foreign language from time to time, no one missed … Not that he took attendance, or would even comment on a person’s absence. Mr. Crockett’s method was far … discussion as if we were mature enough to handle it. He also believed that there was a difference between what we …

… seductive. Then, once you are in this fictional world, it becomes more threatening. You realize there are issues of life … which in the hands of US writers has gone minimalist, become reductive and compressed. Munro’s fiction expands … form can be as compressed and hard as a diamond, it can also be as expansive as a novel. She is almost a cubist. …

… in the Shadow of Mortality Stephen Spender, April 9th 1982. Composite Polaroid, 34.75 x 30". Images courtesy of David … sketches of his felled hero.  Top: Untitled III (2009), 26x40". Middle: Cut Trees-Timber (2008), 26x40.25" Bottom: … “It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is …

… (“solidarity”)—tapped into a reservoir of communal memories, memories of more than a century of worker … across a white page, throbbing occasionally to jagged verticals, above which were marked the dates 1944, 1956, 1968, … thousands were injured and hundreds killed as Polish soldiers fired on Polish workers. The memory of that traumatic …

… it. I fall short as a feminist. I feel like I am not as committed as I need to be, that I am not living up to … (not too slutty, not too prude, show a little leg, ladies), and so on. Good women are charming, polite, and … There seems to be little room for multiple or discordant points of view. Essential feminism has, for example, led to …