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… small encouragements. Natalie’s mother and I have just welcomed little Taliesin into the world. He yowls from the … rings and Roger finally stands in our living room, an Eddie Bauer sock hat in hand, I find myself softening to him. … in the middle. “I hate the passage of time. I hate how it heals wounds. I hate how it races on. I hate how remote my …

… My Plan Here is my plan. Of me for me. It has eight points. How life (mine) will get better and be good. And … walk with this writer, on a cool day, in a park, each of us comfortable in our coats. We talk, we give each other some … show how well I know this. Good. So there’s the plan: eight points. Nine if you count the tennis. Must avoid any …

… to ask them, Who’s this stranger? Where’d he live? How’d he die? There are many causes of death, among them the ache … by Mohammad Shaheen and Amro Naddy Poetry death funerals Mahmoud Darwish 140-140 By Mahmoud Darwish …

… A Countering Appraisal For many Americans the world has become singularly dangerous. Through much of the 1970’s the … Aleksandr Solzhenitzen reminded his Harvard audience in June 1978 that the consequences of the nation’s … war not only destroyed the power of Germany and Japan; it also presaged the final collapse of the British and French …

… new writings on the subject of military policy are uncommonly well written and accessible. Jonathan Schell’s The … Consider, he asks, how a person in a targeted country might die. He or she might be reduced to charcoal by the fireball, … interrelationships of life and environment, as Schell points out, the more nearly the two must be thought of as …