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… they will ever bring forth another Moby-Dick. As Mr. Seelye points out, things haven’t been the same for the sea since … Seelye does not confine himself to salt water alone: he is completing a three-volume work on the rivers of America, one … , the first edition of which appeared in 1873 as Studies in the History of the Renaissance. Mr. Barolsky himself …

… their gnawing, or the high stink of daisies, but one that’s combed sand, palm, crab. What light there is mottles my hands into sealskin, dumb critters I killed for a time, and not for food. … tide to tide. Only a stirring in the groin tricked me into coming about, my Ngarima. She’s a strong wind, she filled …

… that summer. It was July, the willows were heavy, the canals full, the fields lush; there was peace in Holland. It … The salty smell of the sea spiced everything. My mother accompanied me to the boat. But before we crossed the … followed him on stocking-feet over the plank. “Did someone die?” uncle asked. The old couple nodded. “Come and have …

… I imagine these things, the less real they are likely to become. I believe, against all reason and everything I know as … the toxicity of keeping secrets. One of his early studies showed that people who wrote about their traumas were … that many children feel. Grealy recalls that at various points in her treatment and its aftermath her cancer …

… Vietnam, but the bitter wartime debate, except for a deeply committed minority, would not outlast the termination of the … protect its favored international position from future rivals. Triumphalists William Kristol and Robert Kagan took up … reluctance to accept casualties: “How can you have soldiers who are ready to kill, who are not ready to die?” …