Criticism
… post by UVA professor Paul Cantor is part of our online companion to our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … Virginia, might be curious about this show, because it deals with a university in Virginia and regularly refers to … few, probably because of the low tolerance of preview audiences for Poe’s poetry), the professor turns his classroom …
… angle turn to form a short L-shaped structure, which accommodated one extra stall and a breeding area, Nicholas … stud. All the mares in this shed were pregnant with his foals. “You hear that, Molly?” he said. “Hawk’s calling you. … her hands and feet hacked off. A few years later his mother died of cancer. It was diagnosed in April, and she was dead …
… Woolf’s vision of womanhood is as deadly as it is disembodied. The ultimate room of one’s own is the grave.” It … seems impossible. The shifting timbres, tones, and viewpoints of this prose are more alarming, more terrifying, … their own that need to be satisfied. If cheesecake and beefcake and X-rated movies can be accused of using other …
Criticism
… Union , by Michael Chabon.
HarperCollins, May 2007. $26.95 “You haven’t read any Michael Chabon?” said some guy … & Clay the Pulitzer Prize and Chabon a wide and devoted audience. But no reader of his first novel, The Mysteries of … had hoped that I possessed—the ability to pull off multiple points of view, historical settings, the passage of …
Fiction
… but Michael Jackson doesn’t care. He’s got a big paycheck coming if the Evinrudes hold up, and it looks like they … for dinner?” he said. She looked up from the Rolodex and studied his face. “Excuse me?” she said. “I will like to thank … a board with holes in it, and each hole had a set number of points, and you had to get to a hundred. You could buy an …
… Mark Twain When Samuel Clemens “went out” with Halley’s Comet in 1910, as he had long predicted he would, he left behind a wealth of unpublished material composed under his famous pseudonym Mark Twain. Slowly, … Controversy,” we see Twain’s trademark biting humor, but also the extent to which he bridled against the editorial …