… approaches strictly contemporary history, the “archive” becomes for all practical purposes inexhaustible and literally … from the episodic, or the parabola of change from the datapoints scattered on the grid of historical interpretation … Most of the émigrés discussed in “The Sea Change” have died within the last decade, but almost every reader of the …
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Essays
… into this fall when you leave for college, and with two buddies, Jimmy and Carl, you head west on the highway to that … the light until he saw among a network of smaller nail-points the larger nail, and then I saw it too, and I was … we began the task of clearing a space large enough to accommodate the furnace. I had no idea how large this space …
Profiles
… The Life and Opinions of Captain Donald Lipscomb Captain Donald Lipscomb on base in Baghdad. (Dimiter Kenarov) [I met Captain … Reporting. Learn more about this project on the Pulitzer website . By Dimiter Kenarov … The Life and Opinions of Captain Donald Lipscomb …
… to policy debate, while in a 40th anniversary issue, Commentary asked how well America has met its … of liberalism, the dominant tradition of American intellectuals. Immediately preceding these two magazines, in late 1984 … from its beginning in 1914. Partisan Review evolved from communism in the early 1930’s, through an anti-Stalinism …
Essays
… bag. Again: I’m not about to read the guy and make things complicated. I can tell you that I only trust the ugly … book is Exhibit A. It’s the most pathetic sensitivo-beefcake shot of the century and totally, woefully inaccurate. … key words for you here are Restless and Flabby. Pasty is also of considerable import. 4. Stay away from healthy …