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… executed 103 heretics between 1557 and 1562, “more than died in the whole of Spain” during that five-year period), … Many of the essays are reprinted; all deserve to be reread. Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the … by the police. By telling the story through many different points of view, the conflict between the Martinican Creole …

… The signature ink was barely dry on my Ph.D. when the Community College of Baltimore gave me my first teaching job … all around me, my fingers gripped bloodless on my new briefcase. I’d spent about 15 years preparing for this. Last … , no “In the Penal Colony,” and don’t even think of Malone Dies .” “Why not?” “Because they can’t understand the words …

… FICTION In a joint venture, the Iowa Center for Textual Studies and California are bringing out new cloth editions of … with a preface by Denis Donoghue. Harvest/HBJ Books also has a new edition of Thomas Mann’s next-to-last novel, … Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950” and contains comprehensive studies of 41 contemporary American poets, …

… guides him now, examining it against the imperatives of communist revolution, of a belief system hostile to the … in the decade after its first publication. As Lessing points out, by 1971 The Golden Notebook stood a better … (a hundred years before, she points out, heroes were “soldiers and empire builders and explorers and clergymen and …

… of literature is simply “indifference.” Against the coming wave of mass indifference, we can do nothing but join … England love Shakespeare? Didn’t entrenched WWI soldiers read Jane Austen to escape the unprecedented carnage? … institutions of liberal internationalism,” Emre says. She points out, “the paranoid literary aesthetics” of Man Who …