… draws from a broad range of evidence to illuminate the high points of the war and puncture its popular and enduring … is offering a paper edition of William W. Savage, Jr.’s Commies, Cowboys, and Jungle Queens: Comic Books in America, … A third Princeton paperback reprint is The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology by Ernest A. …
Poetry
… look like my mother or father, but like a grandmother who died 50 years before I was born: genes like dolphins … in that direction, remembering Donegal, or imagining her upcoming marriage, her next emigration, from her own mother … or to the one who will survive when she and the other son die of TB. Her face, though tempered, is not expecting …
… discussing grants and other aids to research, they had been comparing their situation unfavorably to that of scientists. … may be more daring, but they have to please some sort of audience. A scholar does also if he wants his books to sell … what about the old angles? There are a number of vantage points from which the members of my particular group, the …
… not only the school but Perry’s standing as well. When he died in 1970 at 93, he was remembered with affection as a … these essays, we discover his repeated reckonings with the “points of convergence” and the “cross-fertilization” of … P6rez Galdós’ ideological posture as developed in these 26 historical novels. Galdós (along with Cervantes, Spain’s …
Essays
… fleeting relief. I went to doctors, many doctors. They recommended licorice tea, nettle tea, peppermint tea, … given all of this alimentary advocacy, and all of my own dietary austerity, is my stomach, at forty-five, still … my father always kept a flattened toilet roll in his briefcase. He never knew to change his diet, and drank heavily, …
Poetry
… it to sing, but swans, everyone knows, only sing when they die. Said the man, I shouldn’t have asked you to sing; I …