… that reads: “Traducció n de Jorge Luis Borges.” There is also the vaguely disquieting recollection in his … and 1946 (the nine-year span is too broad to offer us much comfort), while on holidays from his work as municipal … by him, forces him to perform an abortion on her—and dies, leaving him to spend the rest of his life in the …
Fiction
… The Academy of Chaos and Self-Command I am Aeschylus son of Euphorion of Eleusis and … busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. When I was a boy, in the hours before daybreak, God … and mealy spare parts along the high tide mark. Anacreon died of septic misfortune following a wound from a snapped …
Essays
… Southern advancement through the act of grappling with the complexities of Southern heritage. In April 1925, sixty … A simple keyword search of “Civil War” on the magazine’s website yields hundreds of archived articles and creative … he saw as a backwards and intellectually barren region. He points to some fifty-odd years beginning around the outbreak …
… coasters, blowing smoke, talking and listening. . .equals. Is there anything lovelier than an amber ale in bar … off during my final two seasons. After trouncing the competition at the state championship as a freshman and … golf. I had every assurance I needed: I was a winner. Coming down our street in the rain, you’d pass a dozen …
… Yvor Winters at Stanford When I first met Yvor Winters 26 years ago, on my arrival as a new instructor in the … I was surprised to find him a rotund figure with a florid complexion. One could tell even before hearing him speak … Stanford, Winters had never read his poems to a Stanford audience, although the English Department and the University …
VQR Vault
… close friend and a once-famed poet, who had died of a heart attack, paranoid and alone just two years …