Poetry
… camp in Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, Binh Danh studied closely the mug shots of former prisoners. Danh, a … suspected of being “national enemies”—foreigners, professionals, artists, teachers, Christians, Muslims, Buddhist monks, … Danh’s art and Walt Whitman’s central trope—the leaves of common grass seen as hieroglyphic,” and he became …
Criticism
… if, as a young urban American male, I had any choice in becoming attached to the singularly northamericano sport of … Vocational High School team could probably beat them. Also, it was not a sport that a budding dissident like … overdose. The NFL’s rival football circuit was gaining an audience, culminating in a TV contract in 1965, and most …
Criticism
… hundred thousand copies of their books. But Mark Strand embodies a different sort of “celebrity.” After all, how many … but rarely any poems. His Selected Poems of 1980 comprises Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), Reasons for … stages of a poetic career, we might apply it here. Donoghue points to Darker as the transitional book; Kirby, to The …
Criticism
… be deemed living or otherwise?)—but he does raise some good points. Besides the enduring influence of the three … interesting scenario for what may be the future utility and commercial potential of short stories: The new, post-print … The Question of Bruno ), Jhumpa Lahiri ( Interpreter of Maladies ), Uwem Akpan ( Say You’re One of Them ), and Daniyal …
Criticism
… Sandwich Islands, and Around the World in the Years 1826—1829 . This account includes an eyewitness report of what … Gerald F. Linderman’s The World Within War: America’s Combat Experience in World War II [$15.95]; and Eric T. … Washington’s development from colonial planter and soldier to republican icon [$l6.95]. Princeton has a new …
Fiction
… he lived apart and visited only once in two weeks, always coming at midnight on Fridays and disappearing at dawn on … the morning and took him away. Many people thought he had died and were shocked to see him back walking the road a … which his blood would empty to the ground. But he was also a self-destructing fungus who needed no one to kill …