Criticism
… by you and me and Larry Page. As of last year, there were 1.26 vehicles on the road for every licensed driver in the US, … “peak motorization.” The American auto industry has already died and resurrected itself once—as a loan financier. … Socratic journey, one that moves from Greece to the US, and points in between, finding more questions and a growing gap …
Criticism
… is a potent and venerable method of dealing with the compromises, injustices, and unanswerable questions that … accompanied the spread of dynamic capitalism. LITERARY STUDIES Sisters of Salome , by Toni Bentley. Yale $27.95 First … of Writings , edited by Thomas A. Gullason. Syracuse $26.95 What can we learn about Stephen Crane from the …
Criticism
… of Destiny. By Walter Lippmann. New York: The Macmillan, Company. $2.50. Uncle Joe Cannon, The Story of a Pioneer … vulgar Corsican. Yet the Prince in his retrospect had other points whereon to dwell with pride. He had welcomed the … German have exclaimed with his great national poet: Gegen die Dummheit streben die Goiter selbst vergebens. And yet, …
Criticism
… had personalized them all for my family and me. (p. 260) For Daugherty, rubbing his thumb along the surface of a … him of the violence doled out by a former American soldier gone bad. But if Five Shades of Shadow is out to … what filling Malamud’s large shoes is like; instead, he points out the shivery connections between Timothy McVeigh …
Criticism
… exasperating. Until recently, he hasn’t had much of an audience outside of Europe. But thanks to New Directions, … we’ve been graced with Krasznahorkai’s four taxing, darkly comic novels: Satantango , War & War , The Melancholy of … In his introduction to Krúdy’s Sunflower , John Lukacs points to “the loneliness of the Hungarian language” as one …
Poetry
… iguanas multiply through the night of blackouts in hospitals and morgues. The iguanas burrow beneath roads to bury … stare stupefied at the bust of a mustachioed poet who died after the bacteria feasted on his heart. The iguanas know nothing of José de Diego, his songs of the guaraguao and the pitirre, the hawk …