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… see the rows of pre-dug graves patiently awaiting the bodies that would fill them, or the children who had been … rains. All day and night, I listened to outgoing and incoming fire. Al Shabaab was firing small arms and mortars at … A South African medic who came to pick me up commented on points of interest. “Down that street,” he said, “that’s …
Poetry
… smacked, shoved off into the dark, to undergo penance, he’s come to think, for hunger itself. He doesn’t mind the yard … a body. And Jimmy wonders if the point isn’t that Jesus has come to the table every night wanting someone to remove the …
… Yeats & Company A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers . By Hugh … Man , Stephen Dedalus, closeted with the English dean of studies, muses on a series of English words that he pronounces … at the beginning of A Portrait .(A Berlitz instructor points out objects and pronounces their names in a foreign …
Fine Distinctions
… of its happening lessens the closer to impossible it comes: living to one hundred, let’s say, following a life of … you know ain’t true.” Faith turns not only on belief but also on certainty. I hope, as millions of people do, that … that I have faith that I will win the Powerball, I would commit a grammatically permissible but essentially …
Criticism
… Starting Over . These nine spare stories, each one as compressed as a breath, show a steady, lifelong devotion to … time. She knew each one for who it was, though they had died years ago or hadn’t been seen for ages. Sometimes they … of the Heart—The Elizabeth Spencer Story ), which also reveals that in 1957 The Voice at the Back Door was due …
… forest, in coal, in petroleum, in zinc, in other raw materials and in human energy, make it potentially one of the … of the population of twenty-eight millions, is of the sturdiest of stock, not as vivacious, save for the Ukrainians, … more cultured and of irreproachable morality. Upon its becoming independent, its gifted sons, from the world over, …