… del Carmen to find work. Those who work in Sierra rarely come home more than once a week. Others must travel another … its former self—and soon, if something isn’t done, it may become another desert ghost town. Despite the obvious impact … in works by Alberto Ríos and Luis Alberto Urrea , but also covertly in poems by Tom Sleigh , Gregory Orr , and …
Fiction
… organized columns. The creatures were harmless and died easily between her thumb and forefinger, but kept coming, and Marfa could not sleep. Around four in the … at her government job. Marfa, too, ate organic frozen meals for lunch that were neither healthy nor tasty, and she, …
… our great men of business and finance are under too small compulsion to be pleasing to make much progress in this very … And the last to protest will be our erstwhile liberals. Under the specious plea of “Judge not, that ye be not … trucklers gained access to his age. Anyone who has studied at close range the type of men who dominate American …
… Young Man on the Flying Trapeze For some months “The Human Comedy” was on the best seller lists for books and double … with his girl’s demand for reality by leaving his job also and moving out of town into the certainty of … home in Armenia. Veneration for the dead dim heroes of medieval Armenia distills a peace which passes the feeble …
… most of my associates now turn their backs on the comfortable hint of objective economic drift, and put on the … manifestation is in the retirement of political expedients and the forward rush of economic problems. England … public utilities grew from twenty-two in 1919 to 1,029 in 1926, and he found that after the world war (1919-1928), no …
Essays
… with William Faulkner? His name is synonymous with complexity. It pervades his style, his storylines, and the … is the case with Sanctuary. It is a much debated and studied book. A story of big-city scandal, it is atypical of … a safe-cracking incident and found him in New Orleans in 1926, dressed to the height of fashion, his tie displaying a …