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Memoir
… their bedroom. I’m pulling Dad’s eyelids. I’m tapping Mom’s comforter-covered hips. The tree in the living room is real, … which Dorothy puts beside the porcelain original. She points, I sit. She says, “You come off that pot before you … burnt onto plates hanging on walls. A crystal dish with candies for seeing and not eating. “Why can’t we go in your …
Essays
… the last man to serve as president in exile, was also aboard the plane. He was the man who passed the … priests, political advisors, and aides. Ninety-six people died. It was an incredible event, for a country to lose so … to initiate the process of building a memorial that would commemorate both the victims of the Katyn massacre and the …
… especially for a sedentary man, and almost as important as diet. But she could not really believe that exercise had to … wore both a Mason’s pin and an iron cross stuck on opposite points of his leather jacket collar, and the other had no … him slightly longer than usual to get back on a gearless 26-incher. Getting off the bike and standing alone and still …
… By Charles S. Sydnor. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. $3.50. Plantation Slavery in Georgia. By R. B. … writers have filled in details with more concentrated studies of slavery in the different states. All have shown the … whose work shows greater maturity throughout, correctly points out that the number dependent on slavery was …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … the pagoda, but she didn’t have any family — her children died before her eyes in a Khmer Rouge labor camp — so the … had to travel to the Capitol to remind our elected officials of their duty to defend young Americans is shameful. Yet …
Poetry
… my bones have ground fine like my mother’s if I promise I come by them honestly will you swap out my joints or— will … shall I tell you I obeyed my doctors or— will I present as combative and what if we pretend I’m a man and what if our … if I’m late can I run to catch it will I catch it before I die will I take hikes with radiant butches will I be better …