Essays
… I noticed that the world was prodigious and full-bodied, and that, contrary to the throbbing ache that was … I encountered only underscored that I was present in unwelcome territory. This wasn’t so unusual. Even now, it feels … dissection of Black life amid Jim Crow, and in 1926 he published “Criteria of Negro Art,” a passionate essay …
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Why the Ocean Matters to Everyone, Everywhere In the Fall 2012 issue of VQR , we are proud to feature an article from Sylvia A. Earle, the former Chief Scientist of U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Named a “Living Legend” by the …
… in His Time. By John Bakclcss. New York: William Morrow and Company. $3.75. Turbulent Kit Marlowe, the Canterbury … at twenty-nine. After six hectic London years he had left incomplete the work begun and dreamed of at the university. … once remarked: “I take my own wherever I find it.” So, also, these Elizabethan dramatists pillaged the ages and …
… put to contain the inherent violence of groups and individuals within their own borders, it seems appropriate for … Aggression . With some modifications, their point of view combines Freud’s assumption about the interplay between … and attempting to make one’s ideas accessible to a wider audience without losing the respect of one’s academic peers. …
Essays
… published in 1971, impressed me for many reasons. It was a coming-of-age story about a young girl, and while I was … that girls and women were expected to abide by. There is also something about her writing that is so accessible. She … about intimate family relationships, and it has shifting points of view, so the reader would ask, “Where is the truth …
… An Essay on Widows “It is by way of becoming an aphorism,” said I, thinking to make it one, “that … name for a widow. But it has been agreed that she is to die first; if necessary I shall attend to the matter … still marry in haste, for the most part, but we repent also in haste. It is even possible, at the end of a …