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Beastly Boy
… by the late artist Tomi Ungerer. It’s of a bearded man in medieval garb clutching a book and an enormous knife. He’s … of the artist, ever since. In the past decade or so, I’ve become an acolyte of Ungerer, drawn not only to his work but also to the story of his life, his career, and his unique …
France’s Two Cities
… and the mix isn’t the same as a hodgepodge. There is the comprehensive spirit, then there is the eclectic or je m’en … holds its head up, French revolutionaries and English soldiers in the Hundred Years’ War have left it sadly … ceiling stone. A miracle that they got it up there, and he points toward the great blocks under the roof, “115 feet …
Cakes and Ale and English Letters
… latest high-wire act in literary criticism and cultural commentary completes a trilogy that includes A Homemade … technology scares them; cherishing the disembodied abstract, they find fulfillment in the themes of law. … One can imagine Kenner fairly smacking his lips when he points out that “in 1939 Oxford conferred on Psmith’s …
The Single Vision
… these are the reactions of young writers not viscerally committed, at least yet, to the creative life. Nonetheless, … the innocent, drug themselves into and out of misery, and die in horrible loneliness, or incoherence. Worse, my … not made, this sudden fact of a world separate from him, is also, provocatively, a world he cannot accept. Not cannot, …
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Shadows, Tokens, Spring
… liver and kidneys, which will be reinserted later on. Then comes the dish’s signature trick: Turn the removed skin and … again. Fill the resulting “sack” with the following ingredients: Some salt, one or two peeled onions, and a number of … Parts of Asia : “On these hills are a great number of animals called marmots, of a brownish color, having feet like a …
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The Ghost-Blue Jeep
… had the chance. Some people call us bums, some call us beachcombers, some people don’t call us anything: they just look, … the painting, the better the scavenging for unusual materials. That morning we started off in the usual spirit, … I know we passed fishermen drawing in their seines, brown bodies with thick back muscles straining in the sun as they …
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