… and the fall of Nixon. Blum reminds us of the election outcomes, that Johnson was not Kennedy, of Nixon’s ambiguous … fine little book, first published in Italy a decade ago. Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a … on manuscript readings in determining the text. Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience , …
… seats, but he had no trouble on the way back finding the compartment; there were so few tourists using the Eurails in … waltz,” said Douglas. “Or bust.” He had begun to say, Or die , but caught the word in his teeth, biting on its … courtly fashion, clutching a metal pole and looking with false interest at the advertisements. The tram accelerated …
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… for the immigrant experience. Like Clark Kent, many Jewish comic book readers had been displaced at a young age by a … As the country sank into the Great Depression, tent revivals cropped up across the rural South and Midwest. Itinerant … impulse toward visual narratives of miracle had inspired medieval illuminated manuscripts, the triptychs of Hieronymus …
Essays
… the concept of nationalism continues to present itself as a complex sociopolitical phenomenon, constantly in formation, … for southern writers have remained particular and constant points of interest—from his first two published essays in … , Billy Tone, is concerned “not with the crimes he studies but with the South itself and with the accumulated …
… 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 …
Poetry
Transcription of a Keen It couldn’t have been easy getting it to lie flat on paper. That’s obvious from the asterisks. Above the notes on the stave are some bizarre annotations: Sobbing. Hand clapping. A kind of shake. It’s impossible to guess how they …