Criticism
… I had coined: Thus sadness is a literary strategy. I have come to think of [Kevin] Brockmeier’s version, so reliant on … in [ The View from the Seventh Layer ] tend toward a common moral: Life inevitably ends in death, which is … notes on character, point of view, style, and scene. I will also keep a working spreadsheet of all erections. I’m not …
Criticism
… for future generations. There are reunions galore of comrades-in-arms and special tours for old timers wishing to … one of hand-to-hand combat at its ferocious worst. It is also a story of military miscalculations, high command … a cost of 4,500 killed and wounded, less than a yard per soldier. Eighty per cent of front line infantrymen were lost. …
Criticism
… By Catherine Carswell. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. Lorenso in Taos. By Mabel Dodge Lillian. New … Luhan’s “Lorenzo in Taos.” I wrote, just after Lawrence died, for the New Republic, an article I called “A Man’s … when they appear fully and richly in an individual, imply also a rich full flowering of individuality. That means, if …
Fiction
… a hug. Ten years she’d worked in Freely’s General before becoming Krafton’s first and only law officer. It’d been … for Christmas supper? Marilyn said you might.” Helen studied the front window. Jocey Dempsy’s photo was in all the … a game where they rolled dice and moved tiny farm animals around a board. The adults sat around a long table, …
Criticism
… newspapers of the twentieth century. These periodicals similarly gave voice to the experiences of millions of … only of Abbott and Sengstacke but of some of their most accomplished reporters and editors, including Ethel Payne and … of the laws and customs of discrimination as embodied in the first plank of The Defender ’s Platform for …
Criticism
… had followed two vocations as poet and literary and social commentator and as leading figure in the British … in the modern term—but Arnold discovered, as did his audiences, his limitations as a lecturer: he could not project … Madison, St. Louis, and Milwaukee were the furthest points west and then Arnold returned to the East Coast for …