… Spender, Upward, Graham Greene, and Louis McNeice. A competent book about a fascinating era. What is Literature?, … initially by the effects of the Black Death on late medieval society, Mrs. Tuchman understandably has sidestepped … Henry Green. Viking $8.95 Henry Green wrote this novel in 1926 while still a student at Oxford. After the rather …
Fiction
… from his gold-edged turban covered his face almost completely. The feather on the turban looked as if it were … looking now and then at the people thronging the bazaar and also at his younger brother on the horse. The look on his … In return, her father slapped him hard. Gulam nearly died of humiliation. But he firmly believed in the triumph …
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… more than seventy years of building the bright future of Communism, there were only dilapidated factories and cities … People who grew up in the Soviet era were raised on a diet of lies, and, even now, many struggle to divide old … murdered and dumped in mass graves in that forest. As Meis points out, any memorial—to the dead of Katyn, to the …
… undertaken: the first reform took the patients out of the community and into state hospitals; the second reform took them out of state hospitals and back into the community. Neither one solved the problem. The ideas behind …
Some Buddhist Poems Incarnations AS evening falls, I stare at the darkening plain. Where I shall rest tonight, I do not know. Trees are already tinged with autumn’s stain And the hilltops burn with the gold of afterglow. Birds on his back, the hunter …
Reporting
… “I can only change me.”). Over the past decade, she has become one of Washington, DC’s most visible activists for … rejected decriminalization, said in an interview with the website The Root, “We can’t criminalize consensual behavior, … weighed in with data-driven arguments. The evidence—from studies conducted in New Zealand and Germany to data about …