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… story” is another tale as much about the revolution’s soldiers as its generals, and how generals can only become despots when a population fools itself into thinking …

Island, 1949 Walking the crude rock   dam above the rapids. Why are you   doing it?— you might fall,    drown,   arms useless   as wings. You can’t turn back,   others are watching. And   such slow water above the dam   like thin slee- ping mud.   That …

… Jesters He said, “Do you hear—​?” She listened. She’d just come to join him on the terrace at the rear of the house. It … polls you saw reported in the media, and “statistical studies.” The husband made the droll joke that roughly forty … my driver’s license.” “Driving without a license! That’s points on your license.” The wife was deeply agitated. The …

… from political science, geography, ethics, and religious studies would seem apt. Indeed, the activists’ essays tend to … was not as brutal as the German one, the book in certain points borders on playing down the crimes Italian Fascists … by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan. Viking, March 2006. $26.95 In the game show Let’s Make a Deal, contestants …

Regardless Once, my father took me to the Rockaways   during a hurricane to see how the ocean was behaving, which made my mother furious, whose love  was correct, protective. We saw a wooden jetty crumble. We saw water rise to the boardwalk, felt the …