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… The Many Deaths of Robert Walser The summer issue of VQR contains my essay about Robert … Europe’s German-language newspapers. But by the time he died in 1956, he was, like many writers of his type, nearly … police came and took photographs, one of which has since become something of an iconic image of the solitary, …

… The Freud of history was a bourgeois gentleman. The commercial imagery of his writings reflects the declassed … of unauthorized, and supposedly misleading, biographical studies necessitated violating that request. In his lifetime … Orwell’s famous novel was also published at one of the high points of Freud’s influence, which may help account still …

… churn, and that thicket of things unseen in the back. We’ll come to those in due time, every one. You do have time to … light’s about out, but he’s a loyal patron of these memorials, and I asked him, “Preacher, you know what the Bible … Were they orphans? Were they maybe sworn war brothers who died fighting side by side? With the name Thankful, it’s …

… of the football team, and two girls. Two of his passengers died. My father, in the driver’s seat, survived almost … was a business executive. The only other women in her company worked for her. What sort of husband was a woman … sitting at a desk and looking at sheets of paper in his briefcase. My father declined every interview the firm found for …

… be his. And later, due to the careless stewardship of the Compsons, part of their land was sold to help pay for Quentin’s studies at Harvard, the scene of his suicide. Yet all of this … is the most sensible and sensitive one written to date. He points out that because Faulkner wanted to attract a wider …