Criticism
… broken and I was allowed to call my parents and beg them to come get me. They refused, and I ended up enjoying myself … a forward momentum so subtly powerful that, at various points in the book, I felt suddenly startled by how many … most effervescent. At the end of the novel, Jules studies an old storyboard that Ethan drew for an animation that …
Poetry
… part raids. Annals XII.17 Deciding that they should die by the just doom of war. Annals XII.39 Encounters … officers, or at times without their knowledge. Annals XIV.26 Having harried by fire and sword all whom he thought … the East was rather pleasing. Agricola 20 Peace had become as much dreaded as war. Annals XIV.35 But heaven …
Criticism
… laudatory review of Rich Cohen’s Israel Is Real . The post also includes a link to a correction that the paper … Ames, based on one of his short stories. Lizzie Widdicombe visited the set for the September 7 New Yorker. In … about the process. Some speculate that the government has become more forthcoming about its reconstruction work because …
Criticism
… in the smell of stone. What’s hunger but a smell of stone. Come here] Closer. This is the well so deep there’s no … killing stragglers with butts of rifles, knives, you died in the mud and were left behind like garbage and he’d … old when a relative said scornfully no he hadn’t, he’d died in the POW camp, and when your uncle went to see his …
Criticism
… second, Infidel, a memoir. Nomad, though largely a memoir, combines elements of both earlier books. The author recounts … in several countries—including the US, her new home—but also contemplates troubling Islamic teachings, analyzes the … encourages believers in a Christianity based on love and compassion to convert Muslims for no reason other than the …
Fiction
… letter in the hope that you will recognize yourself and come forward and give me a hint. I notice that I have … me, since, as far as I could tell, it concerned some fine points of medical billing seen from the physician’s point of … voice carried through the quarter-full bus: the perfect audience size. I think it was the word menses that finally …