Reporting
… a few miles of this hill. “No matter how many times I come up here,” he said, “it just never gets old.” East of … His mother lives with him in the farmhouse, but his father died eighteen years ago, and his five siblings chose … where the re-route will cross (even though the EPA’s website explains that those areas have soils that are almost …
Criticism
… post by Kevin Smokler ( @weegee ) is part of an online companion to our Fall 2012 issue on The Female Conscience. … periphery. Elizabeth takes up with a more handsome soldier for a time but comes around to Mr. Darcy’s tight-lipped … 41, never having married (or left England), and calling her also-unmarried sister her closest friend. She wasn’t …
… constitute the novel’s tension. Years later, after I’d come to Chicago, I found in the stacks a small book … by Robert Mapplethorpe of nude men pressing superb bodies together. (No AIDs symptoms showing here.) The other … at the University of Idaho in Moscow. They’d married in 1926, but Janet was too ill to go with him to Moscow. She did …
… the first revival of interest in his published work (he died on Feb. 9, 1979). In his last years he arranged for the … century has received a more respectful, intelligent, and comprehensive hearing than Tate. His critics have included … his Christian urges undiluted into his criticism after 1926; in his criticism Tate was always more circumspect about …
Fiction
… man on his early morning walk. Kiyoshi woke to the sudden commotion of wails and pounding feet, the heavy clang of … the corner Daily Mart. They did not talk during those meals: they did not discuss Kiyoshi’s mother’s depression, nor … so he chose to remain single, keeping busy with his studies and with track practice instead. His resoluteness had …
Criticism
… an admiring quote from Spillane himself right on its website’s splash page. It is one of the only imprints out … the king of pulp?) on a bright yellow background—low price points, and gorgeous painted cover art that evokes the … and not at all for its plot. Hamill’s writing embodies the old pulp patter (“If you could major in trouble …