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… Hemingway when he once observed that many a good man “will die like a dog for no good reason.” As a hand-me-down … turned out several blockbuster books about GI valor, has become a one-man industry on the war, one that The Wall Street … study in good versus evil, virtue versus depravity. It is also remembered as a time when the country rallied from a …

Praise for the Core and Crust of Earth 1 Trattoria Here no one sleeps at night. Tables are gashed with sauce, napkins knotted to shield the heaving belly, and faces grimace with language I cannot decipher. We share the making of litter— crumbs of warm …

… of colleagues’ newly published books, event posters for upcoming writing festivals, slides announcing literary contest award winners, … read a lot of short stuff. I teach at NYU in the Liberal Studies program, and every semester, I teach our version of …

… faculty to the presidency of Yale, and left literary studies behind. Now, after 15 years, he has resurrected seven … Irish Renaissance , by Muriel Bradbrook. Barnes & Noble $26. 75 One’s immediate impression upon reading through … Biography , by Ronald Hingley. Knopf $17.95 As Mr. Hingley points out in his introduction, it is not easy to write a …

… Twins have been concocting little experiments like this and comparing their respective experiences pretty much … grounded in the overthrow of the prior antique/classical/medieval model of ourselves as living, precisely, at the … in question turns out to be about binocularity—two individuals completely in synch in an ongoing investigation into …