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Islands In Summer
… vulgar to show the navel, my mother says. Sometimes Willie comes out to find me and swears she will tell if I do this … red plaid dress, with short sleeves that point, and sandals. We’re the only ones up, and I walk back to the kitchen … baste themselves again. Their burnished-gold gleaming bodies radiate the smell of coconut and salt and hot sand, the …
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Graveyard of Empires: Nine Months on the Ground in Obama’s Afghanistan
… redoubt of Marja, an agricultural town latticed with canals and ditches irrigating the poppy fields that made it a … by insurgents and shared intelligence with international commanders. Even Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services … where Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s military commander, was captured. Coming nearly nine months after …
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A Note to Our Readers and Contributors
… Managing Editor, Allison Wright, has taught in the Media Studies department at the University of Virginia, and her most … two years of marketing funds on completely replacing our website. With a decade-old, functionally obsolete CMS, we … and science publications. In 2013, VQR was accessed 26,572 times through only one such service, and we received …
Is Eating Necessary?
… piously near, but at a safe distance from the black community. I pass a neon-glut of fast food franchises and … blouse and pants, I resemble a decorated guerrilla soldier in luxury p.j.’s. Except for the glittering green eyes, … remodeled by Hank Walgreen. I heard Nancy and Vic are also having their kitchen remodeled. Walgreen is a bearded …
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Two Poems
… celle-ci, et quelques uutres, pour me aervir de documents. Comme au bord de la mer Sur le front de separation, Sur la f … A brisk walk is a song. Walking engenders creation. To compose while walking is as simple and as spontaneous as the … is restraint, Is return, so that never shall break The bodied oneness of water! To remain sea and yet not to lose La …
Notes on Current Books, Summer 1998
… and Imperialism , by Sheldon Watts. Yale $35 This book studies the great epidemics that have scourged the globe over … attempts to come to grips with a melancholy tradition. In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time , by flans Ulrich Gumbrecht. … here provides a lengthy, flowing account that has many fine points and quite a few errors, beginning with a …
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