… within a few short months he has produced this first-rate companion volume on the great papers, editors, and … slugging match punctuated by the immolation of wounded soldiers by burning underbrush such as occurred at the … as if they simply speak for DeLillo). In one of the low points of the book, McClure comes perilously close to …
Essays
… and there scribbled over with institutional graffiti: goals for the day, prayers, bromides, warnings, rules. We were … in the last six weeks. He wanted to know when he could come home. He assured me he’d learned his lesson, he’ll … before, and anyway didn’t give a shit whether he lived or died. I thought about the first time we had to hospitalize …
… in any case”; and it was never considered a part of the common law inheritance which America received from England. … like that of the Scotch judge, who, in sentencing a man to die for the murder of a soldier, finished an eloquent … was absent with the army; and to that end he considered two points. First, there was the dangerous idea that a sanctuary …
Portfolios
… is slowly expanding and could, over millennia, eventually become an ocean. Image We journeyed to Siberia with an … foul the beaches during the summer, and there is a mass die-off of Baikal’s precious green sponges, which play an … pressures accompanying a surge in tourism. On March 1, 2026, a new amendment to federal law, signed by Vladimir …
… Roll, Jordan, Roll. By Julia Peterkin. With photographic studies by Doris Ullman. New York: Robert 0. Ballou. $3.50. … to high estate, where a patent-medicine peddler’s son can become a Rockefeller or a poor-white can become a president? … races live together, there is not only a peasantry but also a rigid caste system. The most important example of …
… My second encounter was in the third grade when my father died of a heart attack. My favorite memory of my dad was … I came back to Virginia to care for my mother, who died shortly after my return. With the last of my family … the small deaths of innocence that occur on the road to becoming an adult. Susan Worsham’s book Some Fox Trails in …