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… introduction to the traditional tripartite history of Medieval Latin, Greek, and Islamic culture and society. Bowing … in one volume the authors provide a number of fresh viewpoints and suggestive comments on the principal questions of regional diversity, …

… husband, Wally Bartow, had been in his day perhaps the steadiest driver in Alabama and Tennessee—half his professional … gripping the wheel and setting his jaw against the day to come, “drive more slowly. We’ve got a ways to go.” And we’ll … have to,” the truck driver said, pounding his knees and also rising. “What brand you use?” She mentioned the brand, …

… when approximately seven per one hundred thousand women died giving birth, maternal-mortality rates—mothers who die … are simply not enough. The data—our woeful mortality rate—points to that fact.  Childbirth is active, physical, … or hold it close.  birth childbirth narrative mortality 26-37 By Julia Cooke Photography by Alice Proujansky …

… a World. By Wallace Stevens. Alfred A. Knopf. $2.00. Have Come, Am Here. By Jose Garcia Villa. The Viking Press. … and I should be surprised to learn that either poet ever studied the other’s poems. Though their fundamental attitudes … For his soliloquizers are not people, but philosophical points of view—or impulsions toward these. They do not talk; …

… Like with much of Atxaga’s work, the writer originally composed the novel in Euskara, translated it himself into … takes us along into worlds seemingly like our own but also strange and tantalizing, filled with suspense, humor, … forgiven, or even praised? Why, for example, is it OK for Zadie Smith to fashion her novel “On Beauty” after E.M. …