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 …
Criticism
… a slideshow of “ Last Photographs ,” a photo-essay forthcoming in this summer’s issue of VQR. The essay documents … Shaw said he could explain the initial reticence of soldiers and marines toward embedded journalists. “We don’t … Ben Shaw (left) talking with Ashley Gilbertson (right). Also pictured are (left to right) Andrea Bruce, a …
Criticism
… by sublimating the actual into the apocryphal I would have complete liberty to use whatever talent I might have to its … was basic to most of his best work. One of the earliest studies was Ward L. Miner’s The World of William Faulkner … of the links between fiction and fact, between individuals and processes driven by factors social, economic, and …
Fiction
… fiercely, as if to assure him of the fact. Later he would come to say good-night and linger another minute in the … could try to call the hardware store. A minute withered and died while she tried to calculate the difference between … to bare skin, slipped less and allowed her to hold a steadier pace. They walked a mile this way, the gap slowly …
Fiction
… out of the window every time the train stopped, raising false hopes in the hearts of the Indian women, who ran along … it horrible, the things they eat and drink? I have just come back,” he said, “from God’s country,” which we are to … He has old fashioned tastes for drink, for gambling, for ladies of the theater; he rides always at a tearing run, …