Criticism
… an experience is in decline. The experience of television combined separation and togetherness; to tune in to a popular show was to commune without community. Television made entertainment a … made it possible for viewers to bypass the commercials, the whole concept of television began to break down. …
Fiction
… flamboyishness that it would inspire gossip for years to come. Though hesitant at first, I supported her dream. … accent it was, but it sounded like that. “Shawnon and the ladies are a-already hee-yah, so you must a-remain upstairs … first. (We are holding hands, but with her thumb, Shannon points back at herself and mouths, “The other fella?”) The …
Criticism
… September 2008. $14 paper each When Donald E. Westlake died on New Year’s Eve, he took a crowd of good men down … this book!” he crowed of J. Morgan Cunningham’s novel Comfort Station . But here’s the kicker. He had written the … pool, either. The vast criminal enterprise of the Outfit also epitomizes the corporate world. Not a legitimate one, …
Fiction
… children and their highly preventable famine, and she also had learned the Somalian word for “please,” and so she … heart had already been broken and how hardened it had become—and as I turned around to ask Katherine if she knew the … Sam dropped immediately to the floor and started wailing—incomprehensibly at first, then making a little bit more sense …
Criticism
… his lifetime, Lawrence now stands curiously offstage, his complex legacy overshadowed by better-remembered colleagues. … name remains on the laboratory to this day. Hiltzik points out that Lawrence was surely aware of the hydrogen … World War II Second World War wwii Robert Oppenheimer 265-269 By Michelle Nijhuis …
Poetry
… mouth open in pain, astonishment or grief, something will come to fill it, blood or baby teeth or tiny snakes, the … so many times over we can’t recognize them. Those who come here want us to love them as their mothers did not, … have no duty to beauty, that land where the wild go to die, where they’ve slaughtered all the wolves and wear …