… Proserpine’s Island Not knowing enough to come in out of the rain, I walk the ramparts of Enna’s … Gulf of Gela, washing southern Sicily, the poet Aeschylus died, brained by a tortoise-shell dropped by a … internal organs and heart. Indifferent to the relics, Mike points dejectedly to the marble tomb on our left. A printed …
… he has already made his visit. Sooner or later, he will come. There are traces of his presence in schools and parks, … property both public and private by teen-age hoodlums reveals no purpose, no rhyme, no reason.” So another … “for fun” but I have not intended “for fun” the maimed bodies of the children who were involved in the crash that …
Essays
… anticipated the air had a lettucey crispness. Nunavut is a composite word that, in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit … a Great Shopping Experience”), where a two-liter of Diet Coke, I found, is C$4.50, a box of Capitaine Crounche … done some hiking, but never far from town and always at a Defcon Two state of polar bear vigilance. One of these hikes …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … selections as we do. Click here for access to the complete project archive 1. “When my daughter Nicole was … in her field of vision, and she makes revisions using a combination of gestures and eye movements. For all practical …
… career, such an unusual, not to say bizarre, task? He had completed and, in the preceding six years, had published the … in his lifelong literary ambitions, honored by as fit an audience as even he might have wished, and probably larger … Sir Walter Scott, an early editor of the works of Dryden (1826), also dismissed any such ambition on Shaftesbury’s part, …
Portfolios
… Arctic, you’ll need skis and tanks, of course, but you may also need newspapers. The Fins have been using this cheap, … long been part of the Finnish strategy. Image A Finnish soldier practices lighting a fire without matches or a lighter. … to cover the war, what ended up being a five-year commitment, and about a year or so into that assignment I …