… in which I’d addressed him. He said, “You’re not going to die. I’m an American. You are free.” This made no sense to … Because by now I had my head up and the light was becoming manageable. I saw hundreds of Japanese men in United … and we spent hours poring over pictures of elaborate meals and presentations. That night she came she said it was …
… “When man’s Utopian aspirations to develop his own humanity die out,” writes Polak, “then man himself dies.” The … “Perfection and Progress: Two Modes of Utopian Thought,” also seeks to find the difficulties that burden authors of … rather than the nature of man. Hansot traces in six Utopian commonwealths not so much the issue of their merit or …
Fiction
… but the shot was still a good seven hundred yards. He studied the animals through the binoculars. In the compressed air motes and heat distortion. A low haze of …
Profiles
… is a series of interviews with professional writers who are also fathers, discussing how they balance the two, what the … the first installment with Tobias Buckell. “You must not come lightly to the blank page.” —Stephen King Ro Cuzon is … regimented, but then I’m a Virgo and likely OCD, so I’m completely okay with that. And Oona just started pre-K, so I …
… The Futures of American Freedom Chapter 26 in The Education of Henry Adams, recently selected as the … choice but to go on alone. Even in his own profession few companions offer help, and his walk soon becomes solitary, … to the director of a Boston-based Center for Millennial Studies, “promises to provide a range of apocalyptic activities …
Criticism
… Union , by Michael Chabon.
HarperCollins, May 2007. $26.95 “You haven’t read any Michael Chabon?” said some guy … & Clay the Pulitzer Prize and Chabon a wide and devoted audience. But no reader of his first novel, The Mysteries of … had hoped that I possessed—the ability to pull off multiple points of view, historical settings, the passage of …