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Nature Poem with a Compulsive Attraction to the Shark
… Nature Poem with a Compulsive Attraction to the Shark the hive swells outside … for millennia until ours—a short tailored tenure  a blip in comparison to the shark more ancient than flora killing only to feed moving so it will not die it wants only what the sea has brined  the shark does …
Notes on Current Books, Spring 1997
… of the national electorate wanted at the time, the outcome seems inevitable. That is, after all, how democracy … obscure beginnings in the second century through their medieval zenith in Western Europe to the 20th century, when … by W. C. Corsan, edited by Benjamin H. Trask. Louisiana $26.95 Corsan was a Sheffield steel maker and merchant, who …
First Love
… the stadium light like torn up notes. When the traffic died some nightbirds stuck in citrus along MacDonald Avenue … shade. I remember thinking I’d remember this and it would come to me later on its own when I’d just be walking …
The “Vietnam Syndrome” and American Foreign Policy
… He and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. have also insisted that it was a necessary war, necessary to … full range of American power to bring about a successful outcome.” The defeat was thus self-inflicted, and the … respectability. But in fact, the governments of Ngo Dinh Diem and his successors were narrowly based oligarchies, …
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The Grammar of Exile
… by the new teacher grinning back at them and repeating, “Welcome! Welcome! Nice to see you!” It was early September … some “studious leisure,” get my novel written. But it was also the height of what came to be known as the European … tense. You were an air-conditioning repairman. You once studied medicine. Whatever credentials or skills the guys had …
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Camp People: Meg Wolitzer’s Interestings
… broken and I was allowed to call my parents and beg them to come get me. They refused, and I ended up enjoying myself … a forward momentum so subtly powerful that, at various points in the book, I felt suddenly startled by how many … most effervescent.  At the end of the novel, Jules studies an old storyboard that Ethan drew for an animation that …
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