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… 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.  In the Soviet Union, an … that had been built by prisoners, sailed through canals dug by slaves on the state. One afternoon in …

… personality, that is being repudiated. He was a poet who also wrote a great deal of criticism, which in its day was … did not rediscover them; for one thing, they had never been completely lost, and during the 19th century good poets on … had been able to address itself to a very large, educated audience, but the price paid for that kind of mass …

… That calculatedly outsize jewelry probably distracted companions while she fed morsels to her memory. A longer … not yet earned. One waits for a member of the audience—a drowsy father whose firm makes fire … a subplot in a far wider tragedy. Her wartime fiction appeals even to readers who felt impatient at those occasional …

… layer by layer. . . “Let Zip-Strip do the work.” It is also necessary to scrape. No one driving by the house on a … were going off.         Or that the shadows of women were complaining, “You don’t care for anyone but yourself.” … in charge of a “cultural series”— books with a limited audience but “viable cultural interest.” Why weep for Jake? …

… of brilliance, haze, Diffusion, lustre, and utter absence comprise The antarctic palette. Our balancing trick Is to … the emptiness even of reaching The pole, of seeing the compass spin; we cling To hatreds: willful, petty, and … begins to encroach, We try and fail to read the story as comic. Absolute zero, the point at which we must Stop and …