Criticism
… T. Geronimo Johnson’s ‘Welcome to Braggsville’: On Race, Culture, and the War Within At the end of Welcome to Braggsville , his ambitious new novel about a group … perspective on a crucial event in the book. Johnson also includes a glossary, at once mocking and serious, as …
Poetry
… to myself that he was my only friend. For a little income and to cope with the lonely summer, I rented out his … I’d found and count our stocks—staying above a hundred meals was important to me. Over bacon and blueberry … my first tenant told me it was only after his wife died that he could finally pursue his lifelong passion for …
Criticism
… holiday, I have often wondered how it has escaped the commercialization or monetization that accompanies almost … King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and the two princes. He died in 1938 and a 1999 feature film was released based on … fraud leaves you with a taste for more, visit the amusing website Museum of Hoaxes , which endlessly chronicles such …
Criticism
… aimed at glorifying distinguished pomposity—or both combined, as in the much overrated Stimson memoirs. Such … The fatuous and self-confident ignorance about elementary points of European history and culture that Roosevelt … the flimsy basis of his pronouncements. (“Roosevelt had studied (sic) in Germany and felt that he was particularly …
Criticism
… So History Begins With Us First and second books of poems come in two general flavors. The first is an omnibus … her future work. Like any artist learning to master materials, tools, and tradition, she’ll find her own right way out … its own moment. It’s impossible to ignore the real-world points of reference for this imagined exchange. We all lived …
Poetry
… Thirty September My Dear Sir— As doubtless these words come unexpectedly into your hands, allow me to introduce … of my discovery. Can you feel it? I have seen two spear points side by side on the trackless sand, the carcass of a … by the muck. Your Friend in the Art, —D 154-155 By Davis McCombs …