Criticism
… released memoir that strikes a sour chord. True Compass is the title of the hefty hardcover, and it is … old right now, the same age as Mary Jo Kopechne when she died. Try as I might—and I have—I can’t see past a life that … worked hard, was loved deeply, and is sorely missed. He was also an individual who built the professional life for which …
Criticism
… some of what you had to say, disagree with you on other points, but what I really wish is that you had someone in … with people about, say, gun control or corporate subsidies: I start to use a vocabulary that I know very well my … She founded and edits Full Grown People . You can visit her website at www.jenniferniesslein.com . By Jennifer Niesslein …
Poetry
… saved them from the pyre. Daughter, you were no medieval beauty lost in the dissolution of the priories. You … corn-colored, thin-lipped, graying like a dawn. If men become the portrait of their mothers, what would I have been, … a life a year … too young to die, too old to plead my case. 265-268 By William Logan …
Criticism
… find no works of literature on the list. My degree in is in comparative literature (Arabic and Hebrew), and so I’ve … Memory for Forgetfulness , Mahmoud Darwish Before he died last year , Darwish was almost universally acknowledged … process of excavating this particularly Israeli truth, he also reveals the profound existential absurdity of life in …
Poetry
… a trance of needles and thread, the cloth spread out like medieval finery over their serious laps, the sky outside the …
Criticism
… The Freedom to Be Free. By James Marshall. The John. Day Company. $2.50. The Machiavellians. By James Burnham. The … avoiding a great quantity of nonsense. The potential audience of this sort of book is, as statistics show, limited … 1941. It is a prelude because the major part of the essay deals with the work of five men who together blocked out the …