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… but, and trod the lanes of Amherst helplessly trying to compose in it, who did his own impressions of it at his own … for a tiny South Atlantic islet dotted with sheep; Admirals Drake and Nelson were invoked in the defence of Empire, … War’s annals will cloud into night       Ere their story die. The word cloud there has a convulsive effect on my gut …

… list, and writers as varied as Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, and Zadie Smith herald her as an … fantasy. And fiction, the genre she admittedly felt most comfortable talking about, was the occasion for the … pretty late in the history of literature that both these points of view arise. Henry James did the limited third …

… history over the past two decades, one yearns for studies with a longer or broader sweep. The profession finally … own Voyagers to the West (1986), in which, among other accomplishments, these eminent historians synthesize great … social preeminence. As Wood does provocatively at different points in his story, he here invokes the example of …

… It tends to be reductionist rather than holistic. It is readier to take its subject apart, dividing it into its ever … more. His appendices show a like devotion to isolated points of insignificant detail. (What is impressive is how … be history because the area is too small to comprehend selfcontained historical happenings. A history covering the …

… not knowing it meant how much in me I didn’t feel could come forward, not in this life.      About Cather: she has … The red-earth dryness only told her how easily one could die of thirst, that for me released an inner fragrance in … things. I think you and I could walk there, our scrawny bodies somehow sure of carrying enough in them to get us to …