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Due West
… a fraction of a moment I think that they are talking about communism, because I know that this was a passion of … is thinking right now, I’m certain, that he doesn’t want to die a failure. Ironically, he’s oblivious to the fact that … maybe this is just one of those things you see before you die. *  *  *  *   Finally, West sees me, halfway across the …
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New Biographies of Dorothea Lange and Thelonious Monk
… because of their interesting subject matters. Cultural studies heavy-hitters Linda Gordon and Robin Kelley write … in California internment camps, for example) complicate many of the so-called democratizing myths of U.S. citizenship. Lange once commented in a photography course she was teaching in San …
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The Heart of American History
… late. It could be interpreted as a sign of the intellectual compromises any author must make who would reach a popular audience. It could be seen as evidence of the inevitable lag … of contingency —the recognition that at numerous critical points during the war things might have gone altogether …
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By the Wind Grieved
… Christian Church. That’s you and me. That wise and comforting letter comes close to the midpoint of this ample selection from the … the health of both writers went into sharp decline; Maxwell died in 2000, aged ninety-one, and Welty a year later, aged …
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Creature Features
… something to say about monsters. If the word monster didn’t come up within the first few seconds of a conversation, I … who played Lon Chaney, Jr.’s father in The Wolf Man , also played the Invisible Man. Bela Lugosi, who played Bela … of it. She whispered into my ear, “I’m epileptic. I could die any minute, so we should kiss.” Whenever Eileen started …
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“We are walking to hell, toward a very dark future”
… first novel of his acclaimed Buru Quartet. Pramoedya, who died in 2006, was widely considered one of Indonesia’s … note about the text that caught my eye: Pramoedya first composed “This Earth of Mankind” orally, reciting it to … Prisoners on Buru island were denied any reading materials. In his afterword, Max Lane, an official at the …
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