Fiction
… The Men We Used to Be Istock.com/Buretsu A man in drag holding a baby walked into a … insurance, and a good deal of money in his bank account. He died in his sleep, in the house he bought for my mother when … tourist wearing a Windbreaker and leather open-toed sandals with black socks had snapped it. Azucar touched the …
Criticism
… research and writings about military and naval history. He points out what a strong hand the North had for this aspect … officers as they bought and sold human lives. Where most studies of the slave trade focus on a single area, Harms’ book … by a CD-ROM (on which Douglas Sills skillfully reads 26 translated texts). David Schorr, Shapiro’s illustrator …
… equally unsatisfied. 2. He built this cabin when his father died. With the insurance money. His wife left him when he …
Editor's Desk
… the end of August, Juárez eclipsed Caracas, Venezuela, to become the murder capital of the world. To address this … these stories portray a city in a tailspin, but they also hint at the role of the United States in this crisis. … it off. “I don’t know what that says about the online audience,” Obama joked. The crowd laughed along, but it was an …
… Agenda for a Second Term Realistic liberals, or practical progressives, will not expect President … Roosevelt’s second administration to achieve the income of $4,870 per family which the National Survey of … represented, or were capable of influencing, considerable bodies of public opinion. The scope of his victory may alter …
Essays
… of Whitman’s art: the self so large, so exemplary, so all-encompassing that it empties itself of all specific content … This despite the epic catalogues—full to bursting with bodies and place names and bustle and tools of the many … of the union and the firing on Fort Sumter. But he had also been an enthusiastic supporter of the War with Mexico …