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… nations to your plate by morning. You are sick and you will die, the doctors say, but I refuse to let it be … living. For dessert, cherries so ripe they whisper Carpe Diem or would if cherries knew much Latin. After such …

… as the vulgar saying goes, is history. Both the disembodied voice of authority and Simpson himself make keenly … assumes that the voice on the square was the voice of communism with a capital “C.” I wonder, however, whether he … make perfectly good sense to the Chinese. The implied appeals to authority, social conformity, cultural identity, and …

… simple and near the surface in Hemingway’s novels. The soldier, romantic, always maimed in some sense, hand—testicles. … novel-writing is inescapably autobiographical—has become the point of departure for a new wave of critical … of it an objective correlative for Faulkner’s bleak portrayals of human beginnings. His imaginative response to …

… 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 …

… Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction, drank too much coffee. Through the coming days and nights, I lost the will to read, to sleep or … the Semal trees on the roadside, perched on the hills. Also called silk cotton trees, they blossom at the end of … non-COVID-19 deaths, including ninety-six workers who died on trains. As I sat at home, helpless and angry at the …