… certain remote or isolated villages. Andalucía is quickly becoming much like the rest of our world; and while we cannot … “Prelude,” is particularly of interest as it makes certain points about Andalucía, including a quite correct as well as … radically re-oriented Spanish historical and cultural studies. Spain, as a nation, cannot be understood properly, …
Essays
… two years later. Pedro Páramo would arguably go on to become the defining novel of Mexico’s twentieth century, … and offered him in return one of the dulce de leche candies I had purchased from a street vendor. He smiled widely, … of the Mexican Revolution. Nevertheless, Aguilar Mora points out, Cartucho pioneered many of the stylistic traits …
Poetry
You Stood Beneath a Streetlight Waving Goodbye You stood beneath a streetlight waving goodbye the night we dropped you off in the city for our daughter’s appointment with one of the country’s top surgeons. and as we drove away, the other children and I …
Criticism
… irritating, highly readable. After all, Dwight, in single combat, grappled with most issues of the last century, from … And last, that lunch at the Atheneum ( sic ) Club (ladies annex) which you may remember, when Gloria and I … features of Truman’s cold war policies,” editor Wreszin points out. His book Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1956; …
… reason why Wharton’s works are much more admired than studied or taught. Something has occurred since her immense … left dormant. When awakened she made an adventurous erotic companion. On the other hand, one’s suspicion from reading … to assess the images of women in her fiction; for, as Lewis points out, she often changed the sexes when she recast her …
On Becoming
… he undergo multiple surgeries. His gaze was both discomfiting and magnetic, his eyes green and iron-flecked, as … “And the other man?” My seatmate sighed. The other soldier had some burning, damage in one eye. Minor injuries, … prescribed a low-dose steroid along with other pharmaceuticals. He told me to cut back on salt. I gathered up the …