Fiction
… to mean?” “We’re like old pals,” he says. “Sheesh. It’s a compliment.” “I thought you were saying you were tired of … says he knows you. My friend Dennis says.” He turns and points to me. “I wondered if that was you,” says the guy. He … me because I don’t say much and in that way resemble an audience. But now I’m more than willing to give him what he …
… justify yet another critical study of Francis Bacon (1561—1626). Who was Francis Bacon? And do we need bother asking in … Bacon continues to help us with his astute advice on how to compete for social advantage, power, and the gifts of … both of her sons of harboring desires to know the bodies of other men, apparently with good reason. Where other …
… The Divine Dante The Divine Comedy. By Dante Alighieri. Translated, edited, and … of the Comedy is so worthy of celebration. Dante deals with the most general and abstract of matters, but he is … or heard it in its quickly traditional public readings—an audience for whom many of these characters needed not even to …
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… the end of August, Juárez eclipsed Caracas, Venezuela, to become the murder capital of the world. To address this … these stories portray a city in a tailspin, but they also hint at the role of the United States in this crisis. … it off. “I don’t know what that says about the online audience,” Obama joked. The crowd laughed along, but it was an …
Essays
… and the laws of the universe. I am nine years old in the computer lab of my public elementary school, and projected … then an inverted triangle within it connecting the midpoints of each side, coloring that internal triangle black … Wilder Hall’s ivy turned flaming red, then the leaves died on the vine, shriveled, and dropped. The first snow …
… Agenda for a Second Term Realistic liberals, or practical progressives, will not expect President … Roosevelt’s second administration to achieve the income of $4,870 per family which the National Survey of … represented, or were capable of influencing, considerable bodies of public opinion. The scope of his victory may alter …