… century from 1890 has also been understood as “America’s Coming-of-Age” (associated with another World War). This … are not obtrusive, since they are useful and make general points. He was a master of the illustrative example, … The worthiest in the land, irreproachable citizens, soldiers and priests, knew by intuition that Dreyfus was …
Essays
… Africa and the Walls of Troy The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. … of re buffs through expulsion from international bodies, and the tolerance of guerrilla activity. Both the … was like the Mediterranean. The principal strategic points were in the hands of the West. It was a linkage …
… Mademoiselle years, hard data on George were difficult to come by. A biographical fragment of possible accuracy: the … never to be in a closed room with a man alone. I had also to swear not to approach Central Park at night or set … was wrong with Brooklyn. Once settled in New York, I obediently left the Park by sundown, being too overworked ever …
… years ago, I was invited to take part in an American Studies graduate seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, on … itself, were all about. Over the years, however, I have come to see the other side of the question. For it has been … of my two protagonists so that both they and their viewpoints became part of a single chapter, while also drawing …
Criticism
… The Art of Watching Looking at Animals Looking at Us Early in January, a few days into the New … in mid-March, early January belonged to a past life. The recommendation came during my first virtual cocktail hour, … King , it’s wild, we’re loving it. The next day a second recommendation appended one of many check-in emails, then a …
… to heat daze. Then, abruptly, I was there. A young boy was coming toward me from what wasn’t a barracks but a house … fringes, almost slovenly, but inexplicably grand; and also, like my grandfather, the Sheikh had dropped everything … and in the Sinai of the Attawnehs, dead boots and bodies lay strewn from Suez to Eilat. Even Sheikh Mousa …