Criticism
… Thomas Frank’s exegesis (which I enthusiastically recommend) of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln in February’s … Years & The War Years (though its antiquity may be incomprehensible to the current generation); David Herbert …
Essays
… peoples, of businesses, of ideas fuzzes borders, and home becomes where the heart is (or the heartless aren’t). Yet in … as opposed to the rest of the nation. The Confederate soldier in a cartoon grumbles, “Forget hell!” This aspect of … you must also work with social realities. These are all points that some Southerners instinctively grasp, and they …
… in any way but this, the snapper writhing downward as I become a man, the gradual clearing and release, the shore. …
… go alone. A number of fathers, uncles, and brothers would accompany the group—as well as a handful of students from even … who was first drawn to Zanskar as a climber, then studied its agriculture as a graduate student, and now welcomed … over the adjoining rock and dirt. Indeed, there were many points ahead where, in warmer weather, with the absence of …
… del Carmen to find work. Those who work in Sierra rarely come home more than once a week. Others must travel another … its former self—and soon, if something isn’t done, it may become another desert ghost town. Despite the obvious impact … in works by Alberto Ríos and Luis Alberto Urrea , but also covertly in poems by Tom Sleigh , Gregory Orr , and …
… by that quality which suppressed dissent and adverse comment. I omit for the moment the Southern novelist, and … professional interest or intellectual curiosity, who wrote also with deep commitment and often outrage but rarely with … he read as predetermined or at least foreknown by God: he died the day, May 30, 1970, he wrote the last lines of his …