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Reporting
… buses that honk and belch incessantly as they carry commuters to construction sites and factories in towns like … by his daughters. They reached the site just as two bodies were pulled from the wreckage, neither of them Rina’s. … thousand workers spread from end to end and across the weak points at its core. Paki was attaching a zipper to a pair of …
Essays
… rock stars, and she thinks of herself as English. The Royals, who walk in beauty, make her heart beat faster. Nearer … her eyes glaze. “Give me a break!” she says, rolling them comically. Maybe, I think, things happen when they should … hints at better days. On shore, however, left behind to die, are the old folks. Stay-at-homes eked out a living as …
… to opera lovers, but those interested in American studies will also find that Dizikes has written an important … $25 One begins to understand the depth of Peter Kolchin’s accomplishment in American Slavery by looking at the 34-page … culture also have the wherewithal to tackle the fine points of race, gender, and class theory in addition to the …
… in history from Cambridge University, England. This year is also the ninth anniversary of an event many Americans would … Prize for Poetry. His latest VQR poems are from his forthcoming book, Drawn by Stones, by Earth, by Things that Have … writer for the old N.Y. World-Telegram . After the Telly died, I found work with the Social Security Administration …
Criticism
… of the English Language (2004), to serve me best. My audience is not literary, but it can still readily grasp the … expression, so the mysterious power to incarnate words may also be on display. As a longtime poetry teacher, moreover, … sprung rhythm haunt a wide range of poems whose effects become audible in the wake of this most extreme example of …