… help. But that was contingent on the agreement of the FCC, which had just promulgated a decree against so-called … The story, moreover, hit Bellows at one of his fracture points. He worried that the Star had been over-credulous … I had worked as a very junior editorialist of 24 under Brodie Griffith at The Charlotte News , and we had wrangled …
… Bright Skin. By Julia Peterkin. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Mcrrill Company. $2.50. Amber Satyr. By Roy Flannagan. Garden City: … boycotts. And there was Mr. Stribling, too, as early as 1926. “Bright Skin,” Julia Peterkin’s newest novel, more than … bills, the effect is produced of newspaper stories parodied. The two related themes that underlie this novel of …
Essays
… however, occupies a space where agency and identity become blurred, where one might act like a sloppier version of … finish a sentence, that I am writing at all. Yet writing is also an act of constraint: The sentences lasso the … in translating that touch, tell us a story about our bodies and the spaces they move through. Without touch, or …
… to be the kind of work upon which other biographical studies could build. His purpose was to present the details of … of his unpromising relationships with his family and his community. Drawing upon Erikson’s life cycle stages, Lebeaux … and antiquarians who presented this stereotype. Sayre points out that Thoreau responded to this idea of the …
… read. —Demere G. Woolway A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War, by Scott Reynolds Nelson and … 1972–2007, by Albert Goldbarth. Graywolf, March 2007. $26 Goldbarth’s mammoth new and selected is visually … of mere “inscriptions” or epigrams, Fitzgerald persuasively points to the ways in which present-day readers can discover …
… passed into history and took the empire with him. Czarism died of the war disease, and its democratic successor, the … which will be bloodier and costlier. Apparently, then, compelling irresistible forces drive nations and governments … land,” the Duce averred during his North African visit in 1926, “because we are prolific and intend to remain so.” The …