Photography
… and slow. Public awareness follows belatedly. Culture comes last. It was in 1856 that Eunice Newton Foote, a … the next and the promise of much grander devastation to come. One would anticipate novels, films, and visual art … in 1959. Five years later, Stanley Kubrick isolated the comic absurdity in the premise of mutually assured …
Criticism
… Rosa, the horsey Mr. Bobo, the vatic “Cud’n Tom.” The old ladies, particularly, are genuine miniature masterpieces. But Mr. Young knows also the incoherent agony of young John Dandridge’s heart; … has been for political and traditional reasons so compact of legal fictions and dying social shibboleths that …
Reporting
… previous year. Human smuggling and drug smuggling have become a cooperative business. The infamous Ciudad Juarez, … children are crossing the US-Mexico border from starting points as far away as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. … palm fronds, and tall grasses shushing against their bodies. After about an hour, they arrived at a trailer home. …
Criticism
… is an ordained Jesuit priest, earned an MFA from the highly competitive University of Michigan program, sold his first … The five long stories (novellas, really) are told from the points of view of children from five different African … wish the rest of the stories had opened up as much. It’s also not as if there aren’t several collections that have …
… to be. That has been the fate of most American writers committed to the briefer genre, which some critics even now … of Men Who Would Be Good and The Way We Know in Dreams are also middle-aged WASP males who work at middle or … him protesting too insistently that he is “not afraid to die” nor afraid of “any dreams I may have.” “Lie-A-Fornia’s” …
… been in fine health all her life, and she looked it. Her complexion was still smooth and her eyes clear. Her long … “Certainly you can,” She whispered. “What would you do if I died?” Hypothetical questions have always irritated the hell … know there are tiny creatures in that water?” I asked. “Animals that you can’t see?” Tricia lowered her face toward the …