Reporting
… Inside Higher Ed reports that Thailand, upset over a forthcoming critical biography of President Bhumibol Adulyadej, … blocked access in the country to Yale University Press’s website: In Thailand, the assistant minister of information … book, The King Never Smiles , is described on the press’s website as the story of “how a king widely seen as …
… that Paris was where all good Americans went when they died—but that it was even better to get there beforehand. I … Nin met Alice B. Toklas many years before I did, and in the company of Gertrude Stein. But our impressions are so … blouse, wool skirt, stout brown wool stockings, and sandals which were the soul and essence of all sandals. I later …
… hundred thousands of the others because I had been asked to come in by the man who was offering the job. It was a … the circumstances.” I told him that since our happy home is composed of two separate financial entities he could open it … of averaging, of treatment by groups rather than by individuals, that all of us employ all the time in a world too busy …
Essays
… Kansas, that has grown from a minor curiosity for me to a compulsion. Although I doubt the rumors, a slight lick of … flutter of butterfly wings and hummingbirds. When my mother died, my sister and I went shopping for headstones in the … fake flowers and our mother’s image printed on it, which I also hated. My mother was a devotee of image, though, and I …
… women knew no Revolution, despite the destiny of their bodies. We stopped at villages in the Mari region and the … are the symbol. Every group of men, however vital, to become creative must be cross-fertilized by some outside … laborer travelling “soft” on a vacation to Astrakhan and points south; the new bourzhui, a Soviet inspector bound for …
… Excursion Coming up behind him on the terrace, Jo felt the urge to … had never cared for each other, and she guessed this studied inwardness of his was a way of reminding her of her … his own when he was on the move. He’d been expounding on points of historical and architectural interest as they …