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… Oxbridge manners amid the alien kasha, but one can prattle comfortably only in the familiar tongue of a godparent—old … is: “What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?” If you answer: “Nothing,” you are neither a novelist, … repression, a means of ostracizing social mavericks, Spacks also links it to the exercise of individual and group …

… highway between Mazar and Kunduz, a dark blue truck coming toward them shed its rear wheel in a spray of … way he could think to keep the blood out of his eyes. He also sort of liked how it looked. “Hassan,” Graves snapped … faded, their eyes crumpled, and a discreet little sound died just past their glottis. “I’m not worried,” Donk said. …

… Territory All day I’ve followed roads. Have I come that far? Terre Haute, Greencastle. Kokomo’s not close, …

… in university English departments, and eventually its audience spread to sophisticated circles outside the academy, … English at Birkbeck College, London, where he taught from 1926 to 1938. For a time, at least, Potter took his job as an … his joke to include areas other than sports, where scoring points through mastery of the symbols of status comes into …

… The Eloquence of Fact Coming into the Country. By John McPhee. Farrar, Straus & … Seattle and Alaska. He has written children’s books, parodies, poetry, book reviews, political commentary, taglines … “Once More to the Lake”). Essays is based largely on The Points of My Compass, a book that in some respects rivals …