… England and France in the 18th century, the Cold War comprises a major divide in the history of the modern world. … made clear in a letter to Edward R. Stettinius on March 26, 1949: “I am quite convinced myself, and I think all of … Soviet and American behavior. Among the earlier studies which have emphasized the American illusions of …
Poetry
… where a ruler would mark an edge to ink off last year and commence with the unblotted future as if time were a heavy … and those who did what war asked of them and those who died and those who died even when they went on living and those grieving the …
… Reich. By Hamilton Fish Armstrong. New York: The Macmillan Company. $1.00. Germany Enters the Third Reich. By Calvin B. … “It’ll be as stupid as my life has been.” “I won’t have you die!” cried the lieutenant, stamping on the bricks of the … by consequence, the Party program of twenty-five points, drawn up early in the Party’s history, was declared …
Essays
… anachronistic way when Beck, a darling of literary indie-rock aficionados, released Song Reader , an album in the … by McSweeney’s and was supplemented with a crowd-sourced website, where fans uploaded their own interpretations of … Reader became a favorite of the staffs at NPR, NewYorker.com, and Kurt Andersen’s Studio 360, where the host and a …
Essays
… literary programs, The Big Read and Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience . But this is what … is at stake. While Gioia came from General Foods, he also came from the old school of literature and poetry. When … at the NEA, the staff book club read The Odyssey at his recommendation, rather than the work of living, breathing (and …
… Canary Weather It comes in sharp, a smell like the James River’s foam. It … them in droughty fields, fetal, nailed. It remembers cardinals, albino owls, a girl. It brings dew-stilled grass, the … Richmond Who in the world throws it & why I’m invited I’ll die before I can say Yet today or actually yesterday time …