… with the mere recognisable presentation of a fact? It is becoming tedious. And it has prevented the novel from … novel which, in England, Thackeray really popularised and Galsworthy perfected; but its limitations are painfully … Without these wonderful fortifications, or these erudite studies on Noses, much fun would, it is true, be lost —or …
Poetry
… of her kiss when the days dragged themselves like doomed soldiers through the Delta. Towns dying, blacks and whites … were set to rumble in downtown McCrory. The Bloods were coming from Little Rock, the Klansmen from the Ozarks. This …
Articles
… a Novel Melville House is one of the better regarded indie publishers, and from my remote perch, the reasons for … designed novellas, the people at Melville know how to communicate. Unlike many publishers, they have a clean, easy-to-navigate website , and, in my experience, they respond quickly to …
… We should agree from the outset that atheism is not a Commie plot any more than was the Inquisition inspired by … the teachings of Jesus. So much for the past. We are both also burdened by more contemporary embarrassments. Every … argument: “If God truly loves those who are faithful and obedient, why has He or She refused over the centuries to …
… rise of the Persian Empire and its war with Greece. Cicero also regarded Herodotus as a blatant liar who told tall … historian who could spin a good story, though before he died, he took a step into the future and committed his researches to writing as a single work with a …
Essays
… science types muttering, “Is this what the new populism comes to? Apparel?” Possibly, at least if one takes a … and Bryan is only eulogized because he suffers a stroke and dies. Meanwhile, the beat still goes on in one school board … a politician campaigning on my previous sentence, nothing also could be more unrealistic. Such a candidate would …