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… however, occupies a space where agency and identity become blurred, where one might act like a sloppier version of … finish a sentence, that I am writing at all. Yet writing is also an act of constraint: The sentences lasso the … in translating that touch, tell us a story about our bodies and the spaces they move through. Without touch, or …
… so distracting. But now it frustrates me. For what will become many hours, I try to focus my listening between her … should not travel such rugged land without a companion; it also, I think, gives her time to observe. She describes and … is you who will be weak if you do not have enough.” She studies the food in her bowl and then puts her hand against the …
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… for future generations. There are reunions galore of comrades-in-arms and special tours for old timers wishing to … one of hand-to-hand combat at its ferocious worst. It is also a story of military miscalculations, high command … a cost of 4,500 killed and wounded, less than a yard per soldier. Eighty per cent of front line infantrymen were lost. …
… Reynolds Price. Atheneum. $10.95. WHEN a work of fiction as compelling and original as Reynolds Price’s latest novel comes along, it deserves evaluation in its own terms. Why … observation, then analyzed at length from shifting points of view in dreams, in letters and in endless talk. …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … these selections as we do. Click here for access to the complete project archive 1. New York November 10, 1958 … saw a T-shirt bearing a message she never forgot: “Become the doctor your mother always wanted you to marry.” It …
… have to make at the Last Judgment for the mayhems I then committed upon the minds of quite decent college students. … journalism is gone forever. Nevertheless, the idea is a false one; it is applesauce, it is hooey, it is the sublime … Greensboro, North Carolina, “News,” one of the sanest, steadiest, and withal most enlightened newspapers to be found in …