Criticism
… research and writings about military and naval history. He points out what a strong hand the North had for this aspect … officers as they bought and sold human lives. Where most studies of the slave trade focus on a single area, Harms’ book … by a CD-ROM (on which Douglas Sills skillfully reads 26 translated texts). David Schorr, Shapiro’s illustrator …
Essays
… have something to say about this act of real violence, committed by a real person, someone I had known as my … a glimpse of my uncle as he barged into the room, fists readied for my father who was charging toward him from … The trail is officially ranked “strenuous,” and at points it seems to go straight up. After awhile, I noticed …
… equally unsatisfied. 2. He built this cabin when his father died. With the insurance money. His wife left him when he …
… Poms and Plays. By W. B. Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company. $1.75. The Collected Poems of A. H. Housman. New … And all seems evil until I Sleepless would lie down and die. But, as patrician as Yeats’ mind often is, it is also enduringly tough; and toughness in his case is a high …
… The Measure of His Company: Richard M. Nixon In Amber History is mostly, as the … quietus in 1758, he surrounded his Father Abraham with an audience of unheeding fools, and the old man himself is … dream: a literary version of infected femoral artery, it points like a fiery red arrow to the clay foot of the …
Essays
… (“solidarity”)—tapped into a reservoir of communal memories, memories of more than a century of worker … across a white page, throbbing occasionally to jagged verticals, above which were marked the dates 1944, 1956, 1968, … thousands were injured and hundreds killed as Polish soldiers fired on Polish workers. The memory of that traumatic …