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… camp in Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh, Binh Danh studied closely the mug shots of former prisoners. Danh, a … suspected of being “national enemies”—foreigners, professionals, artists, teachers, Christians, Muslims, Buddhist monks, … Danh’s art and Walt Whitman’s central trope—the leaves of common grass seen as hieroglyphic,” and he became …
… Unwin. $24.50. This is an exciting time in 18th-century studies, and especially for the study of Alexander Pope. The … about him, remains deeply mysterious. Our difficulties are compounded by the fact that most of what we know about Pope … for any such vision has been missing. Irvin Ehrenpreis points the way to such an understanding in a brilliant …
… refrigerator; it is in these shoes, the skins of dead animals nobody mourned. Dead things can’t ask for help. For … I listened to all night was just some more pain wanting in. Come in. Live in the center, hated, take everything, Let’s … We can keep our pain; we can keep dying. When the body dies it grows stiff and swells with all it had kept to …
Essays
… Alice Munro has always been a writer’s writer, and she has also become, for a short story writer, highly popular, simply for … She has a novel’s-worth of incident and character change compressed into a fairly short story. But her stories have …
Essays
… speckled floors, and my dad, in lab coat, delivering quick comfort to people—in charge, certain. I suppose this is my … the operating table, but in their research. They needed bodies to study. Hunter was a known grave robber. … The plaque bearing Byrne’s name enumerated a few points about his life and fame. The vagaries of his death …
… or King Alexander, did he christen him with a name so comical and so revealing?” The reader will be aware of a … loses teeth as his molested countrymen lose tempers. The ladies he meets are foul-breathed wenches; the lord of the … left alone by the unreasons of chivalry. . .” Carrasco reveals that his deep instinct against Don Quixote is buttressed …