Criticism
… Thomas Frank’s exegesis (which I enthusiastically recommend) of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln in February’s … Years & The War Years (though its antiquity may be incomprehensible to the current generation); David Herbert …
Fiction
… you doing in town? Oh, I got itchy feet. Thought I would come and visit my friend Marcelle. You remember Marcelle. … the bad kind. There’s a good kind? Well, now I’ve got antibodies, a shitload of antibodies according to my doctor. I was … said. I’m immune. She smiled at him then, a small, opaque, false smile. Then said, You want to go to the park? Okay. …
… in any way but this, the snapper writhing downward as I become a man, the gradual clearing and release, the shore. …
… 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 …
… was writing his play called “Julius Caesar,” there died, twenty-four miles from Strat-ford-on-Avon, a rich … his three sons gobbled up what he left be hind him like jackals over a lion’s supper-bones. It slipped through their … a crystal looking-glass; and when the farmers and peasants complained, they were greeted with drunken jeers …
… That dream took many forms, as anyone knows who has studied the intellectual history of the seventeenth and eight … Europe who dies with courage because he has lived for his community, the paradoxical fellow who worships Nature but … seen freedom crumpled beneath a Fascist tank, and have seen also the miracle of its rising again to destroy …