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… War historian Robert K. Krick’s latest book—an eclectic but compulsively readable collection of ten essays on Robert E. … of course, at the hands of his own men. Pursuing the Federals in the moonlit darkness after his storied flanking … error. Indeed, within 12 months he would be named a brigadier general. But James Lane, who continued to serve in the …
… in the past decade. One of the more controversial recent studies on slavery was a two-volume work by Robert W. Fogel and … School, has produced in “Justice Accused” an interesting combination of legal history and jurisprudential analysis. … of the drama surrounding the decisions of the four principals. The treatment is starkly legalistic, with relatively …
Art
… rhythms of her obsessions with both the news and radio, rituals that reach back to childhood. (She was reading the New … night.) Radio, she says—the voices found there—has kept her company all her working life as an artist. And she is, … began curating, arranging stories into sets. Engler had completed a year-long project before (365 days drawing each …
Criticism
… then feels guilty when she doesn’t visit Robin before she dies. Later, when the narrator and two other women visit … is priceless, but the absence of more meaningful concerns points to an emptiness, emphasized by all the white space on … not want to hear the ticking clock, but it’s there. 222-226 By Elliott Holt …
… The Devil to Dinner ‘Who euer casts to compasse weightye prise And thinks to throwe out thondring … fun as to be part of an evening at a theatre, as actor, audience or play-maker. And so I wish I hadn’t found out that … poured into gutters and man is the poorer. But gluttony is also a sin. One day the Devil and Mrs. Noah, who was born a …
Fiction
… Angela looked out at the wet street. November. Darkness had come early, unexpectedly, while the three of them sat at the … school had been a blur of fatigue: classes and exams and orals, research and writing her dissertation. She was 28 when … had been taken from her grandmother’s house after she died, and the crystal vase and two porcelain milkmaids were …