… right place, they’re capable of anything.” The photographs also tell us something about the sort of detective Jake … frames of Chinatown also establish a role for the film’s audience, a role in which the audience of this and every … sleuth but a congenital onlooker, a professional voyeur. It comes with the job. He does go sneaking around hotel …
Essays
… seductive. Then, once you are in this fictional world, it becomes more threatening. You realize there are issues of life … which in the hands of US writers has gone minimalist, become reductive and compressed. Munro’s fiction expands … form can be as compressed and hard as a diamond, it can also be as expansive as a novel. She is almost a cubist. …
… fishes peer around; Ghosts of flowers that long since died In grassy fields where crickets hide And winds come seeking every May The buds they shook on a golden day; …
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Memoir
… their bedroom. I’m pulling Dad’s eyelids. I’m tapping Mom’s comforter-covered hips. The tree in the living room is real, … which Dorothy puts beside the porcelain original. She points, I sit. She says, “You come off that pot before you … burnt onto plates hanging on walls. A crystal dish with candies for seeing and not eating. “Why can’t we go in your …
… By Charles S. Sydnor. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. $3.50. Plantation Slavery in Georgia. By R. B. … writers have filled in details with more concentrated studies of slavery in the different states. All have shown the … whose work shows greater maturity throughout, correctly points out that the number dependent on slavery was …