Criticism
… are readable as transparent, light-handed plots exquisitely composed either to provide grounds for pity, laughter, … idea (such as alienation); or to dissect the “when in Rome” commonplace. Their most compelling profile, however, is materialistic. Bhaskar’s …
Criticism
… the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, but the tradition would also include the sententia of medieval monks, the Victorian guides to manners, and, more recently, the all too common self-help books manufactured for the consumer of …
Poetry
Nostalgia Whom the gods worship as the Light of lights And as immortal Time, I, mortal, breathe As my soul’s element,—the mighty seethe Of Thought discarnate and the dryleaf flights Of my thought storming through my days and nights, Whirlwind and that it …
Fiction
… turned in an indictment in the rape and murder case of Brodie Painter, the so-called Irish Creek Desperado. The crime, … due to a dearth of witnesses. His latest crime was committed in South Mountain on Irish Creek in the county. He … its hospitality to fugitives, and is familiar with the locals and all the paths through Pedlar River Country. It was …
Criticism
… City. There she began collecting the footage that would comprise News From Home —scenes of 1970s New York presented … News From Home appeared in the wake of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ,the 1975 film … and daughter might continue to exist. In Israel, Akerman points a camera out the window of a racing vehicle, …
Fiction
… the one who told me about the teenager in the upper school committing suicide by hanging himself. Then Lizzy, my … a worm on the end of a hook; eventually it got tired and died and then I popped off anyway: “Did you know the Romans … Karla, don’t go,” I say out loud. I’m going to need an audience in a minute. She’s gone and she left her goody-goody …