Fiction
… listened to any music, except, perhaps, at long intervals, from a distance, a patriotic march. He used to provide … his roomy front hall, and visitors waiting for a private audience would pass the time studying the artifacts and … were not as strong or agile on the reins. Riding became uncomfortable, and he began to dislike his horse, as it also …
Essays
… of Whitman’s art: the self so large, so exemplary, so all-encompassing that it empties itself of all specific content … This despite the epic catalogues—full to bursting with bodies and place names and bustle and tools of the many … of the union and the firing on Fort Sumter. But he had also been an enthusiastic supporter of the War with Mexico …
Reporting
… Mark Penn’s Completely Invented WSJ Article Professional pollster and PR … Let’s look some of his claims individually: The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million … a lot. What’s his source on that? blogworldexpo.com , a website promoting a conference for bloggers. But that …
… verdict I cannot greet with a shrug. My interest in the outcome is both personal and professional, since I am part of … undergraduate college’s quantitative policy of assigning points for race. In this way, affirmative action need not, … last chance, its proponents argue, to move the pieces (or bodies) around on the playing board, handicapping some, so …
… career to marry an absentee slave-holder, with nothing to recommend him save romance, might have been explained through … her leads. They could hardly fail to please their distant audience when prompted by a past mistress in the art of acting … writers with Fanny’s histrionic tastes. Among minor points, Dr. Driver might note for future reference that …
… old feud between the artist and the smugger portions of the community revived with some virulence for the welfare of … their connotations, seems to make in some of his poems a studied attempt to combine as many dictions as possible. One … inhabit a moment of dispersions. Rather than meeting upon points of controversy, we range widely in many directions. …