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… Lightning, American Light. By Susan Dunn. Faber and Faber. $26.00. Near the American military cemetery at the foot of … friendship. There one can read a reminder of just how welcoming the French people have been for more than two hundred … true that sentiment must be for the thousands of G.I.s, who died in World War II and are now buried all over France. The …

… then is gone. It is that fast, that nondescript. You come to see the sheet that covers me rise and fall, thinking … you need to believe this. It’s easier to watch a person die if you think he is not watching you live. For you, death …

… was she had in the way of a gift, she had lost it. When she died in 1967, I doubt that anyone felt that she was leaving … experience can cause him only pain.” For this reason, she points out, it is much more desirable, and most people wish, … lights inside.” And that is why her best work may survive. 265-283 By Louis D. Rubin …

… over-the-top rowdiness as long as I could: Gargantua combing the cannonballs out of his hair after a battle, the … avocat, the equivalent of a solicitor in England, but he is also a stage actor of considerable experience, a folklorist … narrative, “for François Rabelais,” writes Cohen, “the headiest liquor of all was the liquor of learning.” Indeed, the …

… for the immigrant experience. Like Clark Kent, many Jewish comic book readers had been displaced at a young age by a … As the country sank into the Great Depression, tent revivals cropped up across the rural South and Midwest. Itinerant … impulse toward visual narratives of miracle had inspired medieval illuminated manuscripts, the triptychs of Hieronymus …