Criticism
… Cleansing in America, by Elliot Jaspin. Basic, May 2008. $26.95 Jaspin, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, has given … the accused but also to further reprisals against entire communities and, ultimately, to the forcible expulsion of … involved and the present-day residents of counties he studied. Jaspin logged many miles visiting these localities and …
Fiction
… man on his early morning walk. Kiyoshi woke to the sudden commotion of wails and pounding feet, the heavy clang of … the corner Daily Mart. They did not talk during those meals: they did not discuss Kiyoshi’s mother’s depression, nor … so he chose to remain single, keeping busy with his studies and with track practice instead. His resoluteness had …
Criticism
… not mean the first definition, the technical one: individuals who teach college students. I will mean the second … centuries. Lynch wishes to uncover “how it has come to be that those of us for whom English is a line of … that we have “this tendency to identify literary studies with the love of the subject and to identify that love …
Criticism
… guides him now, examining it against the imperatives of communist revolution, of a belief system hostile to the … in the decade after its first publication. As Lessing points out, by 1971 The Golden Notebook stood a better … (a hundred years before, she points out, heroes were “soldiers and empire builders and explorers and clergymen and …
Criticism
… post by UVA professor Paul Cantor is part of our online companion to our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … Virginia, might be curious about this show, because it deals with a university in Virginia and regularly refers to … few, probably because of the low tolerance of preview audiences for Poe’s poetry), the professor turns his classroom …
Criticism
… a letter to his brother Orion. Encouraged by the completion of his first significant creation, “Jim Smiley … shorthand than by the impossibility of identifying island points and snags and wrecks that were constantly changing, … too accustomed to writing for print and performing for audiences, public and private, to spend his energies polishing …