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“Shadows on the Sand”
… “Sing, Sing, Sing,” inappropriately muted but unmistakable, coming over the loudspeakers in the dining room. This was … poignant interactions between commerce and art, it may also be said that an inundation of top-40 rock can be a … to confront the old red brick pavilion and recreate a soldier stepping off a blue and gray coach on a winter’s night …
Cherry
Cherry Cherry, I said to myself, trying too hard to experience that tree above the auction crowd. Its lowest limbs had been picked clean, but ripe fruit bobbed above us in leaf-shifting wind as the tree resisted the human, our money worries, the …
Someone Won’t Be Coming Home Tonight
… Someone Won’t Be Coming Home Tonight In Gettysburg, not long ago, I sat down … saying they haven’t done their job in uncovering the falsehoods being fed to the American public. This hit me … and sent them. I felt a much deeper foreboding of the tragedies that lay ahead when, in the days before the war, I met …
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A Writer’s Life: J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello
… Although I don’t recall any audible reaction from the audience, there could be no doubt about the surprise produced … tended to avoid the customary first-person consideration of points made to him, preferring locutions like: “I think what … Coetzee nobel prize south africa suffering metafiction 254-265 By Derek Attridge …
Refurbishing the Middle Ages
… Peter Abelard. By Helen Waddell. New York: Henry Holt and Company. $2.50. William Marshall. By Sidney Painter. … alike congenial in providing illustrations of whatever ideals one may, from time to time, admire: Wonderlands for any … a four hundred and twenty-nine page phan tasy. The medievalist will writhe in sympathy with the tortured Clio, …
Beirut Rising
… that is Beirut’s tragedy. If the city were allowed to die—if its airport closed forever, if its imports and … as an example of the mordant, melancholy wit that has become as natural to the Lebanese as the olives, parsley, and radishes that prelude their traditional meals. “You have to laugh,” I was told, “Or else . . ” The …
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