Criticism
… the beginning (for example, they “eliminated” Republican soldiers and politicians who opposed them, and encouraged the … with new bits. Second, that although close attention points up many remaining gaps in our knowledge, intimate … Book Clubs , edited by Arthur Krystal. The Free Press $26 In 1951 the Readers’ Subscription Book Club was founded …
Poetry
… I stop writing and put down this pen. I once heard someone compare it to the sound of crickets in a field of wheat or, …
Criticism
… as personal opinion inserted to interpret field case studies. I found these insertions to disrupt the flow of the … and Betrayal, by Ethan Gutmann. Encounter, April 2004. $26 Gutmann’s insights hit us at a critical time: How will … in a catastrophe.” In agreement with the ex-king, Macintyre points out that, over the centuries, Macedonian, Mogul, …
Criticism
… future, the past as malevolent ghost, the past as the comforting pain of pressing a bruise. This is a collection … of their younger selves. Nana, the protagonist of “Soldier’s Joy,” sleeps with her now-married high-school … disasters as they feel their way through grief—but also opens the story that was underneath it all along, the …
Criticism
… unreal , as in “I just drove the Las Vegas Strip, which was completely deserted apart from a handful of police cars. It … straight from fiction to reality.” As more and more people die from the eerily named COVID-19 and American life grows … enthusiastic embrace of it, for most literary professionals the term science fiction still evokes a man in a space …
Criticism
… wafts across the page: why would Holt choose a full-bodied red from Bordeaux rather than an Alsatian Riesling to accompany the famously heavy dish of that same region? Leaving … ending, it will run backwards ad infinitum. As Swinburne points out, God is a necessary being “in the sense that he …