Criticism
… in the history of criticism” (p. xi), which he hopes to accomplish through his model of “a new historical science of … terms and categories that repeat obvious and well-worn points. “A critic breaks in,” Webster solemnly intones, “by … schools of literary critics and the Trobriand Islanders studied by Malinowski (p. 15); other occasions when banality …
Reporting
… Ajmal Kasab spoke before a question was asked: “I have committed a big mistake.” He lay flat on the hospital … to go after today’s incident?” “Nowhere. We were meant to die.” How many accomplices were sent with you? Kasab tried … Handler: That was one of them, right? Imran: Both. 10:26 P.M. Nariman House. Imran was cratering. With the …
… whole liberal wing of the party on the spot—testing their commitment to change. I was one of about twenty or so people … volunteers who had been missing for months, whose bodies had only recently been discovered. They had last been … over the head or back or shoulders with a wooden club. It’s also terrifying. Then an order came and the clubbing …
… jokes as he looks on, And red or green battalions march and die; While a terrifying, pounding madness Turns tens of … darkly on the floor from the compass’s four points. It’s night again, the tenth night already. It’s … arms To the nonexistent heavens. 14 June 1926 291-300 …
… time — they appear futile. Why should anyone whose aim is communication impose upon himself conditions which the … lies in wait for everyone who undertakes, whether in morals or art, to follow the cult of perfection: sterility. The … the quays, even in the common ditch of the dead who have died poor. He looked for poetry there, and before the mirror …
… investigates “how it is that such discrepant opinions have come to be held” and considers “whether any reconciliation … recent years he has left the practice of law to his wife (also an attorney) and devoted himself to writing full time. … and other journals. Nancy Hale’s novels include The Young Die Good, The Sign of Jonah, Dear Beast, and (her most …