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… here to Agadez we will pass perhaps fifteen or twenty checkpoints that seem entirely random. Sometimes there are armed … and write. And, while the Third World is used to people coming, bringing things, and then leaving, Bess asks that … backtrack to the other end of town to purchase contraband diesel. It takes forty-five minutes. We are implored to buy …
… of Mexico. By Salvador de Madariaga. The Macmillan Company. $4.00. Perhaps no character in American history has … Christian knight, a far-seeing statesman; to his envious rivals he was a bloodthirsty looter, an ambitious upstart, and … opposing Spanish army, defeats it, wins the remaining soldiers over to himself, recrosses the mountains with Indian …
Essays
… chorus of “who?” The steady return of this response points to one of two things: either the Swedish Academy is … Afghan novels at the bookstores. The Words without Borders website was launched, along with the PEN World Voices … leaving “world literature” to their poor cousins in Comparative Literature. One could even blame elementary …
… me, though they lent my college applications a tone of studied high-mindedness to complement the modest razzmatazz of my sports portfolio. To … the three blue volumes of Werner Jaeger’s Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture , which came in very handy as I was …
Poetry
A Field Guide to the Birds of the Upper Yaak A misty rain, no wind from the west, Clouds close as smoke to the ground, spring’s fire, like a first love, now gone to ash, The lives of angels beginning …
… and flourishes of trees Collect their liquor brown.” They also gather pollen. Every spring the cucumber man buys my … the bees can bring the coal from off the altar. Unless they come, the flower fades, the stem withers, the promised fruit … caller there? Yet many a flower is forgotten, un-mated, and dies unfruitful. There are insect enemies aplenty, but not …