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… Mark Twain When Samuel Clemens “went out” with Halley’s Comet in 1910, as he had long predicted he would, he left behind a wealth of unpublished material composed under his famous pseudonym Mark Twain. Slowly, … Controversy,” we see Twain’s trademark biting humor, but also the extent to which he bridled against the editorial …
… The boy sleeps the sleep of the photograph, and the father dies. When the boy wakens, nothing exists, and he …
Criticism
… of Destiny. By Walter Lippmann. New York: The Macmillan, Company. $2.50. Uncle Joe Cannon, The Story of a Pioneer … vulgar Corsican. Yet the Prince in his retrospect had other points whereon to dwell with pride. He had welcomed the … German have exclaimed with his great national poet: Gegen die Dummheit streben die Goiter selbst vergebens. And yet, …
Poetry
… stomach aches. What will never be taken from us? My father died on a hospital gurney with the please-resuscitate order …
… at effective supernational organization faces is its incompatibility with national sovereignty. To wield authority, … with this perversion of the national idea. Who studies the underground press or statements of underground … publication even bears the programmatic name of Liberer et Fcderer. These discussions are guided by the realization …
Criticism
… Union , by Michael Chabon.
HarperCollins, May 2007. $26.95 “You haven’t read any Michael Chabon?” said some guy … & Clay the Pulitzer Prize and Chabon a wide and devoted audience. But no reader of his first novel, The Mysteries of … had hoped that I possessed—the ability to pull off multiple points of view, historical settings, the passage of …