… Faith Marie after my mother’s favorite sister, who died of Parkinson’s disease the week before her 18th … buried in June, the week before our high school graduation. Compton people who wouldn’t speak to me today were concerned … after mother’s death that I met Billy Tober. I was just 26. William Tober IV, his family had named him. He was a …
Essays
… for existential transformation. Something about the metals in its sandy soil catalyzing metaphysical shifts—I don’t … tells you there is. These are all things people dream up to comfort themselves against the scary feeling that none of … He’s a lively man. A biochemist with shaky hands who studies ions, the particles that carry the electricity that …
… to nostalgic reminiscence; for the next, an interesting and compelling reminder of her elders and betters; and for the … the same time a valuable contribution to the history of the Commonwealth. In short, Mr. Reniers has done a workmanlike … than they could afford to the “Tiger” on the hill. Even the points of entrance and egress were traditional, though once …
… and cause much fulmination. But the lobby in the House of Commons is not the target of criticism. No Royal Commission … the special social and functional interests of individuals may be represented as well as their more general … consideration by the Government. . . . A number of the points you have raised are new to me, and they are very …
Criticism
… On Tuesday evening, President Obama spoke to an audience that included over 4,000 West Point cadets—the future … the likely success (or lack thereof) of this measure has become a prominent topic of discussion in the media. In the … this is a subject that our society and our elected officials cannot afford to ignore. What follows is a short list of …
… a profound lack of interest in or concern with a world of common speech and action. If one has been strongly … but evanescent, only sporadically theorized or embodied in literature, being political and acting politically … of bad political and aesthetic faith. But it should also be added that politically interested fiction, fiction …