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… playing, but he did do the Pikes Peak Marathon in August— 26.3 miles and 7815 feet of elevation gain. “It was hard … Review, The Yale Review , and other journals, and is forthcoming in Agni, The American Scholar , and Triquarterly . … Professor Emeritus of American Literature and American Studies at the University of Virginia. He grew up in …

… Life of Flannery O’Connor, by Brad Gooch. Little, Brown and Company, February 2009. $30 Thirty years ago, a young Brad … project, when it occurred to him that Fitzgerald had died three years before, at eighty-three, without ever … years before her death at age thirty-nine, though as Gooch points out, “she could just as easily have written that …

… wrath that has routinely been ascribed to him but also in chronic, revealing rages against European influence, … to Whitman’s character as elusive and intriguing as other commentators have, agrees with them that Whitman customarily … volunteer work as a nurse and companion for wounded soldiers during the Civil War. As a way of completing the …

… counselor. Sometimes his all-purpose utterances were comforting and other times they made Kate want to kick him. … mother had improved markedly after Megan was born. She had died of a brain tumor in the summer following Megan’s high … an oddly bouncy ring, reminding her of television commercials for cleaning products that portrayed drudgery as …

… Through the accident that very few scientists can write competently, a scientific style has evolved that is pompous, … Through another accident that space in scientific journals is at a premium, wrong turns, interesting mistakes, the birth of insight, are all excluded and only a falsely straight path to the goal is described. To anyone who …