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… participate by sitting still for two hours and a half is a commonplace. We all know it. We all submit to it more or … no nourishment in it. To contend that a man dying from a diet of nicely boxed sawdust must like it because he eats … etiquette, counsellors in the ways of success, guides in morals, and purveyors of health and vigor is only a phase of …
… widow is wailing. At your wedding feast you shouted, “We’ll die, all of us,” and laughed; and now the old women are … you would die; you had seen death often enough and funerals, and heard wailing; but you’d never thought about death, … and still. They could not lift her with their wailing. “Come, get up, Matina, you must! There are things to do now,” …
Poetry
… of her kiss when the days dragged themselves like doomed soldiers through the Delta. Towns dying, blacks and whites … were set to rumble in downtown McCrory. The Bloods were coming from Little Rock, the Klansmen from the Ozarks. This …
Criticism
… of psychological fiction, Munro champions the value and complexity of the lives of outwardly ordinary people. She … in the desert,” and steals a kiss. When Doree’s mother dies suddenly, she chooses to move in with Lloyd, rather … or all of these at once, depending on the shifting points-of-view of the observers. Munro uses Gothic imagery …
… school with my toes turned in, “Indian fashion.” It was uncomfortable, and anybody who watched probably thought I had … however, already by 1671 20,000 Indians faced 40,000 colonials in southern New England. Against 150,000 settlers in the … Indians faced. Spanish colonists, familiar with the die-off of native peoples in the Caribbean and Latin …
… Books, Summer 1985 Readers who relish the novels of I. Compton-Burnett will find their enjoyment heightened by this … leaders adds a new degree of sophistication to a heavily studied topic. His final chapter, a narrative account of one … an anthologist, and Norton, a military man, have collected 26 stories veterans have written about our experience on …