Fiction
… furniture. The boys watched in startled silence as three soldiers alighted beside the truck, all wearing fatigues whose … on the courtyard cement. (On those nights when her cooked meals couldn’t serve as birdfeed, she reached for a tin of red … off the made-up bed. He would give Big Mama no reason to complain. Not about noisemaking, rough play, delaying her …
… Years. By Harold Sinclair. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. Free Land. By Rose Wilder Lane. New York: … fair. “American Years” is the first of a trilogy, and it deals with a period when the pioneer town-makers romanticized … through the novel as the style shifts through different points of view. Though not a literary book, not a book …
… 1914-1935. By Paul Einzig. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.00. American Porcign Policy in the Postwar … 1918-1934. By J. Hampden Jackson. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $2.50. Here are six men—one economist, three … was introduced some two hundred years ago.” Professor Chase also makes note of certain developments that threaten what …
Reporting
… swimming. We were headed to “the beach” with members of the community development project Women in Action, who were … of Nicaraguan Aquatic Resources (CIRA). Vammen, who has studied Nicaragua’s water at CIRA since 1985, says Lake … on one side and Lake Xolotlán on the other. There, Barlow points out a whitish ribbon in the lake roughly eight …
… brilliance in bringing these two figures to life, but he is also critical of Mr. Caro’s analysis. As he puts it, “Caro’s … Michael Nelson is known in the political science community for books that he has published on the American … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www.vqronline.org/ Email: …
… Penn: Apostle of Dissent. By Hans Fantel. William Morrow & Company. $8.95. William Penn. By Harry Emerson Wildes. … He has based his study on the Albert Cook Myers materials for a life of Penn, collected for the most part before … on a witch trial of minor importance and several home remedies, the reader’s confidence in the author’s judgment …