… passed into history and took the empire with him. Czarism died of the war disease, and its democratic successor, the … which will be bloodier and costlier. Apparently, then, compelling irresistible forces drive nations and governments … land,” the Duce averred during his North African visit in 1926, “because we are prolific and intend to remain so.” The …
Criticism
… if, as a young urban American male, I had any choice in becoming attached to the singularly northamericano sport of … Vocational High School team could probably beat them. Also, it was not a sport that a budding dissident like … overdose. The NFL’s rival football circuit was gaining an audience, culminating in a TV contract in 1965, and most …
Criticism
… of books, encyclopedia articles, professional publications, computer manuals and magazines, student papers. […] I am confident that I … as have 300 writers , including VQR contributors Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood . 5. We published Dan Chaon’s short …
… of Mexico. By Salvador de Madariaga. The Macmillan Company. $4.00. Perhaps no character in American history has … Christian knight, a far-seeing statesman; to his envious rivals he was a bloodthirsty looter, an ambitious upstart, and … opposing Spanish army, defeats it, wins the remaining soldiers over to himself, recrosses the mountains with Indian …
… all interested in gender, history, and cross-cultural studies. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past, by … Revolution saw the emergence in Halifax, England of a new commercial class made up primarily of large-scale … virtually swamping his reader with information. This excess points up the real problem with this work: it has no clear …
Essays
… chorus of “who?” The steady return of this response points to one of two things: either the Swedish Academy is … Afghan novels at the bookstores. The Words without Borders website was launched, along with the PEN World Voices … leaving “world literature” to their poor cousins in Comparative Literature. One could even blame elementary …