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… Contributor and Scholar Merrill Peterson Has Died VQR contributor, Jeffersonian scholar, and UVA history professor Merrill Peterson has died . His long, full life included a Guggenheim fellowship, … Peace Corps at the age of 76 , with professional credentials including writing or editing 37 books, chairing the UVA …

… Week’s Highlights: “I Award You No Points” Read In Tablet, VQR contributor Adam Kirsch … “War Dances,” the titular story from Sherman Alexie’s forthcoming book. Funny, humane, sad, structurally interesting, … in her country during World War II, and her work brings audience members and a judge to tears. The words at the end of …

… Jane Jacobs dies at 89 Jane Jacobs, one of the great intellectuals, activists, and urban theorists of the twentieth … century, died yesterday in Toronto. Obituaries and commentary are at the New York Daily News , Toronto Globe & … Jane Jacobs dies at 89 …

… a while perhaps: “Nervous?” For the rest of us it had become a matter not so much of pride as of simple stubbornness … some remark about the incidents, was apt as well to take up comments others made about his driving. We were pretty … transportation. Even driving around without specific goals, there was at least the possibility of coming upon one. …

… For My Brother Who Died Before I Was Born The cornflower Ford is half-sunken … Did you kick when they said “I do?” Married for a boy who died the same day he was born. Maybe everything is your … house and going back to stay with her parents again, Daddy coming with the Corvette flapping more sleeves, saying “If …