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… overflowing with potent imagery. But this sensory input can also be overpowering, making it tough to find a single … another framing device, and steep upward angles enrich the composition so that “the point of view is different from … I only think when I edit.” Asked if the birds are somehow a commentary on the massive city they now inhabit, Mizutani …

… this book is destined to become one of the standard studies of 18th-century France. Poisoning the Minds of the … terms. Although slightly exaggerated, the claim nonetheless points us toward a fresh— postmodern—view of the literature … and admiration. Tomcat In Love , by Tim O’Brien. Broadway $26 Tim O’Brien’s new book is a tunny, occasionally moving …

City Sky Line Painted on A Blind Eye Just before November, young woman bending over, mending you can’t see what. Straight from the nuns, Catholic kid, at a black sewing machine, old fashioned kind. Blind crow pecking path-edge for star crumbs the children …

… of a treatise on differential calculus. His own law studies had been interrupted by the Seven Years War with Great … thrice removed, Francois de Bronac, comte de Bougainville, points out that his ancestor “formed the project of the … into tears and confessed. She was a penniless orphan of 26 and had disguised herself as a young man to earn her …

… visitor of the fallen circumnavigator’s achievement. Accompanying me was Evaristo Zambo, from nearby Cebu, who … cowries, while feudal lords rated only seven, high officials five, clerks three, common people one. And how about the … by previously unknown species brought from the Dutch East Indies by returning officials and colonialists. Brisk trading …