… Yet Guerard has not abandoned a fundamental commitment to clarity. Except for the brief tape recording … his dead mother’s life, deliberately reminds us of Quentin Compson’s research and conjecture in Absalom, Absalom! And … seven-year-old son. She flees to Los Angeles, presumably dies there in an accident in 1922, and is supposedly buried …
… it is beautiful, a hardened flame , a flame that will not die . The ferry moves forward through the night, the pale … I had a friend who lost most of his face before he died, the cancer like ants eating him alive. He wore gauze …
Portfolios
… the lookout for the little piece of pasteboard that would complete my collection, add another valence to its scope, or … hadn’t then attained a dominant sense of conscious social commentary (excepting the battlefield photography of Mathew … In them, we see art, craft, and design. The cards can also reanimate destroyed buildings and streets long …
Fiction
… The Russians were chased out of Lwów, fled. A German soldier broke the lock of the cell with his rifle, kicked the … fearing to be left behind. Months later, when her blood comes, it feels like an accident. She feels a clench and a … in Lwów, pamphlets flutter through the air like enormous petals. surrender, they say in Polish: poddaanie się. Then the …
… All that activity about four children! The reason for the commotion, and consternation, was that the youngsters were … Harry F. Byrd, who dominated the public policy of the Commonwealth and who had determined that school integration … to reduce the number of statewide elected officials from eight to three, thereby creating the “short” …
… the inextricable knot of the Jersey traffic, was as welcome as sweet water after the astringencies of … the absurd but endearing flamboyancies of the 1920’s. The medieval fakery went well with the tiny private parks, where … the shabbiness of the Houses built in the 1930’s. At some points they had faded and dimmed into positive sordidness, …