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… the play is one of the most widely translated Greek tragedies. As a result readers come to Medea knowing in some detail what will happen. … Unlike other Greek tragedies there are no strong reversals and few surprises. When the play begins events have …

… She brought Maggie fresh hot tea in a thermos. “Emily’s coming to see you this afternoon” she said to Maggie one … your teeth, Sarah,” Maggie said, although Maggie had had false teeth forever, or so Sarah had believed when she … in a draft,” she said. Maggie’s third brother, Jimmy, had died of pleurisy at the age of ten, from standing at a …

… has said that they are beautiful. She and Linton are communicating through their eyes, hers to his wide-spaced … Brooks, and Warren. He mentions Donne and the Metaphysicals. Jacobean drama. Pound? “You know I can’t read … Devlin is still there on the steamer rug, a towel obediently draped around his shoulder, but Avery has got up and …

… tedium underlying life there in decades before he had yet come to be. Tucked in the book, a letter of late 1864 to a … was melting down, who simply forgot he’d borrowed it, then died. We have the words, the daybook bristles with that …

… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … these selections as we do.    Click  here for access to the complete project archive    1.  VQR: You say this may be the … say that peace is the end of art. Most art (all good art) comes out of some kind of turmoil, mostly personal. But if …