Essays
… for, well, just about everything. Making music is an embodied competence, and some significant proportion not only of … all”), leading students to speak directly to each other’s points but jumping in just enough to give shape to the … or change in the music, will occur on August 5, 2026, when an A will begin sounding. That note will cease to …
… a state of more unstable equilibrium than he supposes. His companion, Barlow, is at once bolder and more conventional. … Then, no doubt, nobility involves a goodly degree of size also. There is nothing ugly, no, not the slightest detail, … in the New World. In the abstract, whatever may be the expediency of our new policy, it is quite immoral. The Greeks …
… human beings are addicted has been discussed, with varying competence. Most of the contributors are Southern-born and … for any future discussion of the theme with which it deals. This book is overdue chiefly, one suspects, not because … the Mayflower on an eastbound passage and recognize more completely than he now can, the ties that bind him to the …
… the short tempers, the freezing houses, scanty meals, sickness, filth, and utter weariness of the home front … Pihl writes of that event, “and I would say that Nazism died in Germany when the drama on the Volga came to an … of Lieutenant General Dittmar, radio voice of the High Command; episodes in streets and stores in which …
Criticism
… never have imagined that such a mode of viewing would be come a quaint anachronism.) Thoughts of political havoc were … on Lee Harvey Oswald. Phillip Kerr’s standalone The Shot also takes us to Dallas on November 22, 1963. Though not a … a review of Oswald’s youth and chaotic life (his father died before he was born, and he had moved twenty times by …
Criticism
… find no works of literature on the list. My degree in is in comparative literature (Arabic and Hebrew), and so I’ve … Memory for Forgetfulness , Mahmoud Darwish Before he died last year , Darwish was almost universally acknowledged … process of excavating this particularly Israeli truth, he also reveals the profound existential absurdity of life in …