Criticism
… eye. It was what Sedaris wrote: “It might surprise you how completely enjoyable this book is, as rich and beautifully … screenwriter Ed Burns, in an episode of The Wire about falsified you-are-there newspaper stories, derides as “the … than the state of things, a condition in which we might be complicit. The blurber may be speaking of craft—the use of …
… Land of the free. By Herbert Agar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.50. Our Enemy, the State. By Albert Jay Nock. … are slaves. For, if the feudal state was the tool of medieval plunderers, and if the merchant-state is, and always … Mr. Chase’s economic blue-print, represent three important points of view, fully and brilliantly set forth. 295-299 By …
Essays
… claim to understand or even fully appreciate such a richly complex man and artist? That was my problem then, and it is … office where scholarly off-prints from PMLA or Studies in Bibliography were usually displayed. A rather … manner or told in precisely the same way or from the same points of view. Each is a new artistic adventure, making new …
… in my sleep, behind my face. If you ask which of them is false and which is true Enter the house with me and call, … Memory is no stranger in the house of sleep. It comes as a visitor for a reunion. If a private occasion, … day, season, year conform to no calendar. No compass or map points my route or direction. Sensation is all, the shape …
Reporting
… dictator, is notably absent from such signage. Waving the medieval red and white Belarusian flag over full-throated … 60 percent. In hard times, the Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986, has always served as a rallying point for the … pre-positioned security agents at the normal rally points the following week, organizers changed locations at …
… he was light gray around the eyes too, like a black-faced comedian, though I could not see his eyes for the bandage he … mountains towering somnolently above them. When the breeze died fitfully, the sun would grow of a sudden almost … than the tomatoes and grapes, that live and grow and die, content, smiling, without duty or devotion. He believed …