… in favor of the latter. It was almost a relief finally to come on an apartment in the mediaeval manner—a relief until … batterie de cuisine, a collection of poeles, poelettes, chaudieres, marmites, cocottes, poissonieres, presse-puree, … nature we were destined to learn did not exist. The chief points in her favor were her French, which a member of the …
… Australia. Why she had to go to Australia was at the time incomprehensible to me, as was the embarrassment of my parents … in public, and would have embarrassed a Shakespearian audience in Boston, not to mention my parents. At any rate, my … with a loathing only exceeded by that which I felt for the also compulsory minor poems of John Milton and the Sir Roger …
… blindly mad, when he in fact was all too aware of his own complicated demons. Walser, who wrote in German, moved … environs he preferred. Then the troubles began. His father died in 1914. (His mother, whose depression and lack of … Echte. It took them more than ten years to decode the 526 pages of materials, yielding a startling omnibus work: …
Criticism
… promotion for his last book, James sparked debate with his comments about the domination of white women as gatekeepers … to mean everything for publishing and marketing professionals and very little for actual readers, who tend to read … noted on a recent episode of the literary and queer studies podcast Food 4 Thot , “It’s sad when fantasy writers …
… that those more sophisticated than Sweeney Agonistes should also “wrestle” with one of the central questions of our age—namely, how making coherent sense becomes increasingly problematic. Think of Prufock, worrying … political science professors produce number crunching studies about poverty without having ever met a poor person, au …
… the imaginations of a whole new generation of intellectuals. I remember with absolute clarity the first time I laid … window of the Harvard Coop. That was a time when it had become fashionable to talk about the “new Conservatism,” a … for several preceding years, and his classes were the audience before whom he hammered together the approach in The …