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… of sustained energetic writing and correspondence. They also illuminate a nearly forgotten moment in Pound’s life—a … of Europe.” In fact, his broadcasts were at times nearly incomprehensible, sounding like hyper-politicized Cantos with … jibber-jabber. The FBI turned out to be Pound’s main audience. After the Allies invaded Italy and made their way up …

… the office. My job was to open the fight world to Lee and company, guiding them through its deep course catalogue of … And Frazier, who spent weeks in the hospital after soldiering through Ali’s punches in order to beat him, was … again. Having come into the first fight with Ali with a 26-0 record, he went 5-4-1 after it. The four losses were to …

… Community and World Order   As World War II drew to a close, … by statesmen who thought it impolitic openly to reject ideals that seemed to command the passion­ ate allegiance of … the Greek polis was a community, and Rousseau’s Geneva. A medieval manor, a Jewish ghetto, the miners in a Welsh pit, an …

… or smell gumbo simmering on the stove, a flood of memories comes to me. In 1953 when I traveled in the rural South with … their altars to walk the streets with strangers; when soldiers with guns were assigned to keep the peace or to … places, violence in others. People were hurt and people died. Students and civil rights workers were hosed, beaten, …

… of the Novel, or Failure of the Novel, or the Shrinking Audience for the Novel, or—conversely but not … is being made for the very first time and is Big News—is coming, and we should be ready for it, and be ready to … over-the-top scene to the next. The way Sherman speaks points not to a failure of language, but to a failure …