… Coming of Age They saw a distant steeple behind the hills, … and a view of the valley before heading down beneath an offcolored sky. The mention of Jess had sent Cordelia’s … gone. On his knees, both hands holding the gun, the boy studied the wounded man and then spoke, ending with “porfavor.” …
… certain to be vandalized by The Home’s keepers. The suit comes back in its plastic wrapper and I hang it with my own … the librarian spar with adolescent energy. Our social studies team rotates topics, sharing the intern breathing down … rustle signals the arrival of his tray. To the volunteer he points out Darby’s picture—a beauty queen! All the staff …
Criticism
… —Sean Nalty Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause, by Caroline … their present in relation to Rome. He finds their viewpoints in charters, which contain portions on boundaries … mourns for a nameless “you” that has been lost, and must compete with “falling piles of paper and clothing, the …
… buried treasure. . . . In a few weeks the gypsies will be coming out to the flats and mother will deliver her annual … What circumstance could make it fortunate for a baby to die? I wrestled with the problem but it remained always a … that swept away his business and his wife’s health; she died and he committed suicide shortly afterward, leaving …
… Decorated by Theodore Nadejen. New York: George Doran Company. $3.00. Said the Fisherman. By Marmaduke Pickthall. … him poet. Vivid scraps of negro life; gambling scenes, burials, dances and trips by steamboat to pic-nicing places on … a civilization that he did not form, the thread-bare tragedies, comic to eyes that miss the pity of them,—all these …
… On literature Today. By Van Wyck Brooks. E. P. Dutton and Company. $1.00. Reason in Madness. By Allen Tate. G. P. … Thest Bones Live? By Edward Dahlberg. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. There was never a time in the history of … and pseudo-scientific, that clutter up literature with studies of influences, bibliographies, semantic knowledge, and …