… presented by a Pennsylvania Grand Jury for administering Communion to a dog), Charles Sumner, the pernicious … of Credit Mobilier stock in his pocket, a bribe as a committee of Congress charged. In short, Clemenceau agreed … the Civil War was fought for freedom, his conclusions are also correct. My own views—totally at variance with M. …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in these selections as we do. Click here for access to the complete project archive 1. We were always doing the … Laugh, he’ll lower his head to his hands And sigh. When he dies, they’ll replace him With a video looping on …
Criticism
… Illusion . Why did a male perspective seem to be of great comfort to me, they ask. Comfort. This astounded me. Were … is a bard of negative spaces as he plays with reversals, contradictions, and juxtapositions—“Alone Together” is … his work as editor and publisher of Writ Large Press (“an indie press that uses literary arts and events to resist, …
… New Jersey Politics and Government: Suburban Politics Comes of Age which former New Jersey governor Thomas H. Kean … Truman wrote to his beloved wife and was selected from 1,268 letters discovered in Bess’ house after her death in … of a Chance: A Memoir , by pianist Peter Duchin, son of Eddie Duchin, America’s prominent society band leader [$16.95 …
… I’ve misremembered my slot in the order, so that when it comes around my teammates all shout, “Syd! Syd!” I linger on … an archaeologist must do. So often and long has he studied, say, the mystic artifacts of the ancient Niger delta … or unconsciously long for such transport; but he must also sense how awesome, even crushing, it could prove. I …
… genres—Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, and Robert Penn Warren come immediately to mind—most fiction writers who also write poems would probably sympathize with Updike’s … The Time Traveler . Although nine book-length studies of Oates’ work have been published to date, not one of …