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… prominent politicians, media personalities, and intellectuals have come out recently with harsh critiques of Israeli policy … in the New York Times . The second episode Greenwald points to is a series of columns Roger Cohen wrote for the …
… partisan biography. In 1975 Anna Freud was unhappy about studies of her father, and proposed the creation of a “Defense League” like the secret committee her father had brought together before World War I … that reaction goes unmentioned. Bruno Bettelheim does not come up either, even in connection with Anna’s little essay …
Poetry
… at the AWP Conference in Washington DC this weekend, please come out tomorrow, Saturday, February 5, to hear four poets … It’s an all-star line-up, featuring work from the VQR website by Kwame Dawes, Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, and Natasha Trethewey. Erika Meitner will also be debuting a work-in-progress from the upcoming Spring …
Criticism
… Master of Melody Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry . By Anthony … art and signifies “a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and … finger), and more figuratively it means something that points out or indicates. A good index can be to a work of …
… A Skit-Scat Societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals? But what about animals’ cruelty to humans? What about … kitten, a waif and stray — hence her name!—of the perfectly common or garden grey-and-white variety, alone and … — how can one accept what is already his? She is finished, complete, perfect. Her slightest movement, the faintest …
Poetry
… murderous patience, and the pomp Of pain swells like the Indies, or a plum. And there you will stand, as on the Roman … regards you with authority Till you feel like one who has come too late, or improperly clothed, to a party. The doctor … the dancers, and tells you how just last fall Her husband died in Ohio, and damp mists her glasses; She blinks and …