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… porch glider Back and forth the glider heaves our strange bodies, 88 and 24, your head swaying on its stern like a … You did it—painted him as he was until he died: an enforcer of laws who paid your way and said “Never … lost shape years ago. You raise a sheet to your eyes, then command me to read the part in red type: I am myself a …

… of more than 6,000 volumes to the nation. It would become the nucleus of the Library of Congress. It was a … of pressing debt. As the end of life approached, in 1825—26, accumulating interest had pushed his liabilities to well … in financial matters) Jeff Randolph, the scheme failed. He died deep in debt. Remarkably, this immense personal …

… from childhood with the knowledge that they were meant to die violently, at the cusp of manhood, before ever having … a man with an infamously puny heart, so puny, especially compared to the massive width of his chest, that many … when white men would fight on the earth like mere mortals—not as they did now, from thousands of miles above, from …

… hands are balled into fists, her eyes on the lookout for oncoming traffic—this though we are on a country road with hardly any oncoming traffic, only grazing sheep. Dozens, hundreds … been my nature to cling to the literal. Perhaps it was to compensate for the extent to which my siblings had fucked up …

… Sir Richard Southern Looks Back: A Portrait of the Medievalist as a Young Man In 1953 a book entitled The Making of the Middle Ages was published by Hutchinson and Company, an established English academic publishing house. … Ages unfolded by anecdotal illustrations of particular points, almost in the manner of an impressionist painter. A …