Fine Distinctions
… about animals and their ways. Those stories had sharp points. Aristotle credits Aesop with defending a corrupt … They no longer bother me. Remove them, and fresh fleas will come.” In other words: Oust the politician, and another will … that last bit never really works: We brave dangers, and we die. We tell our stories, and we pass on. But the stories …
Fiction
… the button that sent the colored silks spinning, the burgundies and stripes and patterns whooshing past. He paused on … be critical, to sharpen their arguments into fine, piercing points. Besides which: Miranda is so young. Nine! he thinks … what he should have said, he reflects as he settles his briefcase onto the overhead rack. “Come home” was too final, too …
… even though a significant part of its African American audience rejected it on ideological grounds. It occasioned a … and decorum of its classic parent, both tragic and comic, full of strange, moving, and powerful moments, Harlem … and ape, tumble out.” or the selfconsciously populist voice of Hideho Heights, as he barges …
… Reading the poetic fragments, she shows them in their complex multiplicity as well as in their pure unity. On … intensely crisped writing. Happily, however, Caws offers a companion piece, Poems of Rene Char , In collaboration with … the reader’s pleasure and dramatizes the translators’ accomplishment. While the accuracy and validity of some of the …
… protect the president. They must have foreseen the age to come. Since McKinley’s assassination, threats against US … dozens more political figures. (Nearly all were shot; two died in bombings; three were stabbed.) In 2025, Capitol … police, more threats. Digging through the Capitol Police website, unearthing the force’s history and strategy, a …
… America, By Thomas E. Tallmadge. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.50. The American Architecture of To-day. By G. … of any other native art. Within recent months three such studies have reached the public, each with a definite purpose, … while at “moral Oberlin” the Norton and Princeton ideals approach a fusion. In the practical craft courses at …