… and professional responsibility, on the one hand, community sentiment and the lawyer’s quest for community … on the other. The book deserves a prize as well as a wide audience. “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!” A History of … on a Ravaged Century, by Robert Conquest. Norton $26.95 This collection of essays by the renowned Stalinist …
… Leo Clancy was a boy in Baltimore, he wanted to be a soldier. His heart beat for the stars and stripes. On good days … This didn’t happen. His eyesight was, and is, too weak for combat. He was never a U. S. Marine. Too bad. Clancy was no … change within a story. How an author deals with changes in points of view, especially from a cockpit and through a bomb …
… of the Wolf , which chronicles a heroic Republican soldier’s illegal return home 34 years after the close of the … a discussion of this strikingly original fiction would be incomplete. At least since Dr. Johnson told Boswell, “There is … it attains the dimensions of an authentic work of art. 526-533 By F. Allen Josephs …
Essays
… injuries were found to be so severe that she nearly died. The nurses nicknamed her “Baby Tshepang” which means … been shamed,” declared the proceedings of a Parliamentary committee on child abuse; addressing a group called the … asked whether South African men were becoming “sex cannibals.” All of this came during a period of national soul …
Essays
… whole thing amounted to no more than eight seconds of discomfort in our otherwise exceptionally comfortable lives. … yet started and maybe she wasn’t checking her e-mail. Also in fairness, the e-mail didn’t exactly demand a reply, … is some kind of exercise in patrolling for authenticity. Zadie Smith, who’s written from a variety of ethnic and gender …
… bent of the South. These two sides were very literally embodied in Germaine de Stael’s romantic novel of the early 19th … of all countries in Europe, excited in him.) II In 1826, a few years before Emily Dickinson’s birth, her father … in “Our lives are Swiss” of those three exclamation points which splotch the verse, the designation of “Siren …