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… “People, they keep the wounds fresh. Somebody’s story becomes everybody’s story.” Every July, several thousand … gum disease had unsheathed his dental roots. “But your website says I should apply here.” “It is not possible,” he … of his clinic and forced to patch together wounded soldiers at the army barracks. The rebels had advanced into the …

… Where the Hills Come Down Like A Lion’s Paw on Summer She’d rewritten her … erase so much and leave so little. . . . (Though it could comfort, too—as if a blessing rose from the white dust—when … was late October’s burnt-orange before the rains. Coming back, we half-saw something glide like a shadow over …

… was written before Time on the Cross or Eugene Genovese’s compendious Roll, Jordan, Roll, for that matter, were … follows the conclusions reached by the many monographic studies of Latin-American slavery that were initiated by the … to the fore at the time that they did. For as Rice properly points out, slavery or coerced labor was as old as history; …

… treasure trove of words, each with a precise meaning. It is also a source of confusion and frustration, since so many of … and refuse to stand still. Consider our word fowl , which comes from the Old English fugol , meaning any old bird. Our … the difference between Old English and modern English, Medieval Latin and Italian. Within those differences lie …

In a Garden IN A GARDEN Here, where iris blades are fine, Blazed the swords of Antonine— They are bits of greenish bronze, Stiller than the plaques of leaves Hanging from plum-covered eaves When noon is quiet as a bonze. . . . A gap in thinking blackens …