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… Sr. had been in the country for a week. He’d decided to come early to revisit some of the places he’d been during … had come early to Vietnam. Rowen Sr.’s former Air Force buddies were spread all around the aviation industry, the … He sat almost primly, his knees close together, a briefcase on the ground parallel to his thighs, a benign, …

… works’ intrinsic value, however, there’s this: Though they come out of widely divergent cultures—indeed, … Berg has no shortage of other awards, that selection reveals something about her as a writer. From the first, she’s … the grown woman’s funeral. This is an official affair, she died an esteemed literary figure of postwar East Germany, …

… my name  was not in their diaries. How many people have come outside  from their desperate invocations   …

… wet the paper, or how to do a surface roll  of gold, & also the recipe for the gesso she’d need to tease out— from …

… in the history of criticism” (p. xi), which he hopes to accomplish through his model of “a new historical science of … terms and categories that repeat obvious and well-worn points. “A critic breaks in,” Webster solemnly intones, “by … schools of literary critics and the Trobriand Islanders studied by Malinowski (p. 15); other occasions when banality …