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… here to Agadez we will pass perhaps fifteen or twenty checkpoints that seem entirely random. Sometimes there are armed … and write. And, while the Third World is used to people coming, bringing things, and then leaving, Bess asks that … backtrack to the other end of town to purchase contraband diesel. It takes forty-five minutes. We are implored to buy …

… in fact it has been less of a struggle than a series of deals. In order to create a national myth, and a gallery of … a dim future the moment when fitness for self-rule would become evident. Despite this, official British policy remained … have nearly always been sources of expense rather than of income, and countries that have got rid of them have generally …

… Poetry. By William Empson New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $2.50. Readers of William Empson’s “Seven Types of … order and a tradition; his tactic of magnanimous realist also makes it possible for him to touch important responses in his audience. The reader is made to feel that the pastoral …

… if Los Angeles disappeared into the ocean, New York would also grudgingly cease to exist. They are each other’s … Across dozens of films, NYC versus L.A. has swung comfortably between high-brow and low. The Coen Brothers’ … is almost as pissed off as Ben Stiller in Greenberg , an indie film about yet another displaced, neurotic Jew—this time …

… been disguised by familiarity, “The Hundred Years War” has come to have a life of its own, a moment in time which is … that “It is arguable that the Hundred Years War was medieval England’s greatest achievement.” That the concept is, … as far as the siege of Calais in 1347. His second volume, also of about 600 pages, ends in 1369. Or, to focus on a …