Criticism
… outside his chosen tone and texts, he does not pursue. He points out, for instance, that Trilling’s “success” depended … for our “good”? How much condescension towards his audience resides in that “tone of the center”? Perhaps Boyers … insight and sophistication today. Twice in his study (pp. 26, 50), Boyers cites Leo Bersani’s provocative book on …
Fiction
… in hand by the management. The descent is steep and the communicants jog down awkwardly, their feet moving too fast, … one groom stabbed another. When the most beautiful horses die–many years after the flats, after years of stud–they … In Ft. Pierce. In Stuart. St. Petersburg. Naples. By canals. On land sucked out by machines from the swamp. They …
… Roost, that was the upper boundary of the Hollow, has become Lovers’ Leap; and Last Hope Farm, down where the branch … then scoured those that tried to ride it out off to sea, to die of hunger and thirst. Johnnie Lattimore killed his … at his wasting such a candy name on a hound dog. 251-260 By Harold Taylor …
Essays
… his best, Faulkner at his. And these are times when style complements the piece’s larger aims. Stylistic choices are … order; we dip into the brother’s life at different points alongside the narrator, and when the narrator loses … love a brother, a tragic hero of a brother, destined to die young?” And now we see how Kleinzahler’s stylistic …
Essays
… Along with many other observers, Barone points out that America has been redeeming those rash … by law from American competition; otherwise their audiences would let them die or be taken over. Western Canada … every land see us as a mortal threat. census demographics 267-278 By Christopher Clausen …
… and the meaning of his life. When the long-lived statesman died on the Fourth of July 1826, he left behind a 656-page index of his private … acquainted in Europe, Chinard emphasized Jefferson’s selfconscious and systematic effort to make an impression on …