Poetry
Nostalgia Whom the gods worship as the Light of lights And as immortal Time, I, mortal, breathe As my soul’s element,—the mighty seethe Of Thought discarnate and the dryleaf flights Of my thought storming through my days and nights, Whirlwind and that it …
Essays
… of books, encyclopedia articles, professional publications, computer manuals and magazines, student papers. I used to spend much of … new publications keep appearing to satisfy new audiences. Circulation figures shift from one publication to …
… recent causes célèbres in the liberal intellectual community was provoked by the publication of a slim volume … I would like to focus here on one of the specific points argued in his essay, which is that man’s propensity … the dangers of a nuclear exchange, had fallen to a 26-year low. This drop was in almost inverse proportion …
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… of tennis, or even skating—though in this last he might become a part of the decorative ensemble, as he would wish to … an American and a contemporary of his, who was also to die in a far-off, foreign place, still in his twenties—how … his voice “literary,” and most of his emotions and viewpoints had their foundations in some book or other. And that …
Essays
… boy plays in an abandoned boat in what used to be the Aralsk Harbor. Brothers look out the train window at what used … been forbidden to pray. Mira’s reasons, however, were more complex; she hoped to one day adorn herself in hijab when … marriage town, there is something about Aralsk that has died. It is a beach town with no sea, a surreal endless …