Essays
… past and the spirit of the future in our national life. We commemorate our origins because our origins are intertwined … applied. Generations were not fixed mathematical points, as on Jefferson’s model; they were, rather, like … It was unjust. Two-thirds of the adults then living had died by 1816. “This corporeal globe, and everything upon it, …
Fiction
… on, she was a regular presence in the salons of Ximena San Diego and Susana Lezcano Lafinur, dictators of taste in … reporters. Humiliated, she retired to her ranch in Azul, accompanied by a faithful few. Soothed by rural calm and the … who acted as her personal secretary. She spent the year 1926 traveling in Italy with her numerous entourage. In 1927 …
… one which brings advantage to the people as a whole. Compromise may be a political necessity, but it is not … in the form of publication of letters from outraged soldiers, is that labor has not kept its no-strike pledge and … be possible to quote official statistics in support of the points made and to enter upon long and involved statistical …
Reporting
… open to the West but, unlike many of their compatriots, not enchanted by it. Far from being elites, … the Islamic Republic’s thirtieth anniversary. Facing an audience of experts on Iran that included several gentlemen … The young men loosened up and described where the flashpoints were. They had already witnessed indescribable …
… By Stephen Spender. Random House. page=$1995 Journals, 1939—1983. By Stephen Spender. Random House. $19. 95. … do for his own generation what Yeats had so magisterially accomplished; but the great organ music would not come. As … of the relationship between literary lion and his audience only emerges over a long passage of time. As anyone …
Criticism
… of servants and peasants he’s at his best. He’s at his windiest when sympathizing with the love-sick upper-class Mitya … You Think), by Jonathan Haidt. Basic Books, December 2005. $26 Jonathan Haidt wants to make you happy. Or, rather, he … He cites recent studies in psychology to demonstrate his points and bolsters his arguments with fresh insights and …