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The Successors
… in Port Harcourt in 1995: That was when one of the corporals saw a boy who could have been a university student; he … The corporal thought he looked suspicious… . “Hey-shhh, come here.” The boy acted like he didn’t see or hear the … down at once. Paul, the seventeen-year-old boy in question, dies as a result of the blow, but his parents and siblings …
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A Consummate Artist
… Cather was “born interested.” She wrote from many vantage points: autobiographical, historical, male, female. She … , the growth of the artist, ( The Song of the Lark , “Coming Aphrodite”), the terror of a life unlived which seeks … Brown, the first scholar to understand Cather’s greatness, died in 1951 while writing a critical biography, which was …
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Book Notes
… 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 …
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Bullies
… 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 …
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On Loving Literature
… 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 …
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Self-Portrait of an Artist
… 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 …
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