… No Man Alone Now “You could always come back,” said Hemingway about the American culture he had … Hemingway leaves behind him the European systems, he also abandons his own American earth: Our people went to … post-War disenchantment which Hemingway expressed in “Soldier’s Home”— the living along “without consequences,” this …
… Mansfield, a short-story writer from New Zealand who died early at the peak of her career; the other on Wyndham … His opposition to the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 1950’s had earned him lasting … discriminating taste, he was less interested in the finer points of acting than in the composition of the scene. The …
… It seems only to say to me, “He who lives by the sword dies by the sword,” which I know is not the message you … forward. But nothing seems to be at stake. I see great high points of narrative, landmarks, peaks you want to reach (and … that’s only part of it. I count in that chapter a total of 326,000 men, all armed, all “fit for battle.” But are they …
… Hadley was there, he decided to save it for a better audience. “Friday afternoon,” he said instead, then added, “Et … was forced to hold his head up at an angle—an obviously uncomfortable angle, Wembish thought, though making no move to … leaving his upturned face innocent and bland, his eyes tiny points of blue behind his thick glasses. It was clear that …
Criticism
… unreal , as in “I just drove the Las Vegas Strip, which was completely deserted apart from a handful of police cars. It … straight from fiction to reality.” As more and more people die from the eerily named COVID-19 and American life grows … enthusiastic embrace of it, for most literary professionals the term science fiction still evokes a man in a space …
… South. By Edwin Mims. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1926. $3.00 net. There are thirty million people in the South. … method of working, and the excellencies of pessimism do not come within the range of his comprehension. His fist of … take issue, not with the theory but, rather, with the expediency of the Mimsian criticism. The South perhaps has had …