… you the hunt is never in pursuit but in opportunity—what comes to you as you wait, forearms set for the next …
… major penetration of the region when it appeared as a more comprehensive vituperative essay in the second of Mencken’s … Gerald Johnson and Wilbur J. Cash. Both were to take their points of departure from Mencken’s corrosive satirical … hero from the benighted South was to a nonSouthern audience. His surface simplicity, his courtly manners, and …
Poetry
… to be shipped to American troops with the label “U.S.” Soldiers joked that it stood for Uncle Sam, and Troy is still … the possibilities of the nation’s future. The proud accomplishments of the city’s beginnings stand in stark … that rusted and ruined northern part of New York State but also what the region has come to stand for. In street …
… A Briefer Comment Fiction Black Is My Truelovc’s Hair, by Elizabeth … be leveled at the author because of his nostalgia for medieval terminology, but it is fruitful to recognize the … of personality and value as entertainment. Harcourt, Brace $260 ART Goya, by Charles Poore. A SPLENDID biography of …
Essays
… ash, when famines swept the land and deforestation was so complete you couldn’t even warm your hands by a fire. The … force to keep inside? And then it got dark. And radio signals vanished. And even the monster jeeps I kept spotting, … a season, not an Eden. Misery awaited Floki: His animals died; Floki gave up. You can find trace of Floki in the menu …
Criticism
… new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion, $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen … to Energy” bulletin board system, and now archived on a website dedicated to his work . This essay is undated, with …