Essays
… at the Vermont State House. The house and senate judiciary committees had called an extraordinary hearing to give the … the language they used and the emotional tenor of their appeals showed the ways that what we often describe as a … life. He and his partner had cared for his father as he died. “We understood what the term family means, and I have …
Interviews
… who do extraordinary things worthy of the big screen—to complement our Winter 2013 issue . This installment … There were the affluent and middle-class people, and we also had a huge sub-prime market—people with marginal … Virginia; she blogs regularly for VQR. Visit her website at jenniferniesslein.com . By Jennifer Niesslein …
… apparatus of a roaring trade, the paraphernalia of physical comfort and convenience, are not civilization, and there is … and. refuse to eat a bite until the Indian civil disobedience movement came to terms, the trouble would be over in … prudence requires our society to develop more available points of sympathetic contact than the one which industry …
… recent history affords much evidence that it is Intellectuals who are most swiftly and permanently convinced by a … America; why predict the ruin of a culture that never had come into existence? Had he been acquainted with our idiom, … can be no other, since cultures are by their very nature incommensurable. The English man, with rare exceptions, does …
Essays
… At one time it housed some 3,000 captured Union soldiers. In April 1865, federal troops entered the town, and … times again: Cahaba, first state capital, 1818—1826 This stone marks the site of Cahaba selected November 21, … to reopen streets, erect interpretive signs at key historic points, and eventually undertake …
… In a concluding section of this latest effort to comprehend as gifted and intriguing a literary personality … offers the interested reader a better sense of who this complex writer was and what he was trying to do with his … to connect to this or that kind of psychopathology. I also expected to hear more of what I’d heard back then at …