Fiction
… a fraction of a moment I think that they are talking about communism, because I know that this was a passion of … is thinking right now, I’m certain, that he doesn’t want to die a failure. Ironically, he’s oblivious to the fact that … maybe this is just one of those things you see before you die. * * * * Finally, West sees me, halfway across the …
Editor's Desk
… by the “Global South” in the 21st century as the region becomes a key participant in the U.S. economy’s move toward … and Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www.vqronline.org/ EDITORIAL OFFICES: ONE …
… Science. By Houston Peterson. New York: Longmans Green and Company. $3.50. Huxley. By Clarence Ayres. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.00. We often forget the price which others have … in a long process of temporal development from individuals of a quite different type, is a conception so completely …
Criticism
… your working life,” asks an exasperated wife, “you’ve studied these stories. Why?” She means the stuff of folklore, … of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from FC2, with a rousing introduction by Laird Hunt. It collects … underscore the cyclical arrangement, overall; as Hunt points out in his preface, the collection opens “I was …
… that he was aware how terrible the world of the past was compared to the world of today, how much more older people … to see something very far off in the distance. But he could also see the point at which she gave up trying to see it. … bunnies, chocolate Santas, chocolate turkeys, Halloween candies. Did he feel he had less than other boys in his class? …
… the Holy Grail. For a great many in an American generation coming of age in the 1960’s, the civil rights movement … was right, though there was, of course, more to say, as he also knew. Getting to one’s own conscience’s commanding … he did reject categorically that method—civil disobedience—which the civil rights movement would later find to …