Profiles
… If there were a pantheon of take-no-prisoners pit-bull diehards, Diane Jessup would occupy a prominent place in it. … to save every little doggie in the world,” she wrote on her website. “I love the breed enough to believe in culling. And … Then I realized what had changed: It was joy, entirely unselfconscious joy. Every time one of her dogs made the correct …
… The Wound and the Bow. By Edmund Wilson. Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.00. Opinions of Oliver Allston. By Van Wyck … in “Axel’s Castle” hardly foreshadows the Wilson who studies “the writing and acting of history.” And if “To the … the various linguistic disciplines; Ren6 Wellek points out the limitations in particular approaches to …
… Minh Long, Third Chief Assessor (Retired) in the Materials Division, Ministry of War, Republic of Viet Nam, speaks … success which the Republic of Viet Nam enjoys against the Communist aggressors from the North is due in no small part … whose advances I spurned, spread the rumor that people died because of my numbers. That is the kind of malicious …
Essays
… chorus of “who?” The steady return of this response points to one of two things: either the Swedish Academy is … Afghan novels at the bookstores. The Words without Borders website was launched, along with the PEN World Voices … leaving “world literature” to their poor cousins in Comparative Literature. One could even blame elementary …
… Everything you want has its price in the suburbs, and computer shops and record shops, even a version of … the way. Peruvians like Rickey don’t love the army, and soldiers, if prudent, don’t advertise their trade. Some, on … Colman played in the movie, and getting to the summit points to the city between peaks. “Machu” is the old peak, …
… me, though they lent my college applications a tone of studied high-mindedness to complement the modest razzmatazz of my sports portfolio. To … the three blue volumes of Werner Jaeger’s Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture , which came in very handy as I was …