Articles
… more about the prophet than about the shape of things to come, so large is the contingent element in human destiny. … from impairment by the States” ( Gitlow v. New York , 268 U.S. 652, 666). We may be sure that the assumption was … the deep shadows of 1863: Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a …
… of ideal. Identification embraces the American audience, widens meaning, assumes understanding. The … They may read Henry James’s preface to his New Yorfc Edition as autobiography, and at least one so reads … The book, as they say, is even better than the life. 609-626 …
Essays
… from an open-cockpit plane in the 1930s, on one of the only comprehensive surveys of the coast. Siggi sails by comparing … with other matter—trillions of them pass through our bodies every second. So detecting neutrinos requires using a … Each of these stations determines the precise position of points which are the basis for all other measurements in …
… it is a celebration of country life abounding in folk melodies, lyrical warmth, and orchestral color. For the central … with a sure hand. It is possible to quibble over minor points, yet the performance as a whole is worthy of the … be found on To Drive the Cold Winter Away (Vanguard VSD-71261), a delightful patchwork quilt of carols, dances, and …
… to a man-made moon. Each window leaks a draft of cool, reveals a scrap of blue tempting us up. We pull back against the … waves do their pre-historic two-step, shuffle and glide, die and die again, wind-tossed, noisy but solemn, the moves classy …
Fiction
… Nyberg emailed to say he’d moved back to Maine and would be coming down to New York for three days. In college, Stewart … guy whose parents owned a yacht. He took women’s studies classes and wrote papers about post-structural … get up. What time we meet for group exercise. What time meals are served.” Josef had at least three days of stubble on …