Essays
… Did I trade in my scholarly aspirations and become an effete arranger of bouquets? What redeems literary … W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, author of numerous critical studies of modern literature, and then master of perhaps the … real foreign words or his invention (see note 2 on page 263, vol. 2, for the answer), or when a fellow anthologist …
… There isn’t much to be said for an ideology whose essentials are the greatness of white Christians and their … and self-pity. Terrible things were done in the name of Communism, but at least Communism promised the elevation of working people and the …
Fiction
… and bean-bag furniture with just enough room for two bodies to make it into the kitchen single-file. The kitchen, … on like this for a while: once or twice a week she would come in late and drink at the bar, then she would go home … Carter; Anwar Sadat-as-Marlon Brando-as-Stanley Kowalski looking triumphantly down at Yassir Arafat-as-Vivien …
… an address at Longfellow Hall, Harvard, by calling on the audience, most of whom were prospective teachers, to picket … pedagogical books reviewed in popular and semi-popular journals as if they were literature. The first step, then, in … to the United States through the support of the business community, and sometimes regret the ingratitude of the …
… need to dredge the gulf to get it all back, including the bodies,” she says. “Including the bodies.” It’s nearly … can’t afford what the city charges for demolition.” She points to an empty lot beside her house. “If you wait long … casino that operated just off the Mississippi coast in 1926—the Isle of Caprice, formerly Dog Key Island. We speak …
… hair when she wept. That evening had been unpleasant again, comfortless, with her father scolding and scornfully crying …