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… spoke bluntly as the Confederacy’s leading editor. When he died in Richmond just before the Confederacy’s final defeat … called the last Jeffersonian to hold public office; he has also been called a brooding proslavery fanatic. Clearly the … individual who denounced, in his paper, all northern men, coming south of a given line, as scoundrels, cheats, and …

… of one of Berthot’s recent paintings, you immediately become aware of depths in the painting and you are drawn out … turn in his art, but the countryside to which he had moved also echoed a world he’d known before, in childhood and … or his own American follower, Emerson. Wordsworth’s mother died when he was eight, his father when he was thirteen. …

… Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos A virtual stroll reveals that nothingness is in full flower. The libertarian American Thinker condemns as “compassionate nihilism” a proposed Belgian law extending … sense, only death finally separated them. In the briefcase Camus was carrying the day of his fatal car crash in …

… The Many Deaths of Robert Walser The summer issue of VQR contains my essay about Robert … Europe’s German-language newspapers. But by the time he died in 1956, he was, like many writers of his type, nearly … police came and took photographs, one of which has since become something of an iconic image of the solitary, …

… or a box of soap flakes) wrote as if part of their audience were elsewhere. Ours was still a poetry of naïve … was the first American poet who ought to have been incomprehensible anywhere else, yet he had many English … to ignorance. Most societies are wary of raw-grained originals; Whitman’s was inoculated against him. It would have …