Essays
… Libya, is no friend of the Colonel. In three weeks, a 26-year-old unemployed man named Mohammed Bouazizi will set … live with Qaddafi. We have no choice. No, it is what will come after him that everyone wonders and worries about. It … despite the repression, M still remembers why, as a foot soldier of the revolution, he was an unquestioning supporter of …
Essays
… somehow not an option. So if, eventually, some of my work comes right up to the line (if there is one) that separates … have shown me other possibilities. In addition to a healthy diet of the classic short-story writers, such as Katherine … it has to be repeated several times; but at other points in the story we cannot guess what the questioner has …
… In high school I lied about my dead father’s death, said he died of a heart problem. I couldn’t say the word suicide. … But it was heart trouble that took him so low he couldn’t come back up. He owned the ESSO on the main highway, Number … high school. My dead father says I told a truth slower in coming. I was only five. Like a by-pass, the traffic flowing …
Fiction
… line a rule. “You going to talk or what?” Jay asked. “How come you never talk to me anymore?” “I talk to you.” “So? … don’t believe in God.” He said, “Is it because your father died?” I said, “I don’t think that has much to do with it.” … talked to them, with a gesture of his arm sending the signals to move them one way or another. For a while, when Terry …
… is not devoted to their special interests. Its ideal audience, however, should be students of Western intellectual history, who will be fascinated by the complex pattern of recurring ideas that Olney presents. … appeal to the historical authority of the race is also implied in the strange title of Olney’s book. The …
… Poetry —1927 — a Miscellany. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company. $2.50. The Women at Point Sur. By Robinson Jeffers. … orgastic frenzy. “The Women at Point Sur” tells a story as complicated as any novel; a story that, for a reader with a … was healthy and normal. In the recent edition of his complete poems, “The Testaments of Francois Villon, …