Poetry
… Hollow near McSwain Branch creek, just spring, all the animals are out, and my beloved and I are lying in bed in a soft … forsythia, more yellow . It is night now. And the owl never comes, only more of night and what repeats in the night. owl night Animals death yellow forsythia Poetry 62 By Ada Limón …
… the border-lands of their civilization, are subject to two competing forces, one centrifugal and one centripetal. Our … our authors here would like to think—that we shall ever become as exclusively European in our point of view as the … of the People; A Study in the American Political System” deals to a considerable ex tent in political pathology and is …
Criticism
… The following post by Becky Tuch is part of our online companion to our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … such a radical departure from countless dramas American audiences have seen again and again, its central paradigm … Becky Tuch is the founding editor of The Review Review , a website dedicated to reviews of literary magazines and …
… of the French and Indian War a century ago that has become a classic account of that conflict. Now Atheneum has … of Fred Anderson’s A People’s Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven fears’ War. Anderson’s … American Guide Series, New York Panorama is a collection of 26 essays touching on every aspect of the city’s life from …
… either as a ripple in the stream of cars funneling into San Diego, or as part of a caravan slouching to Ensenada. For … with a vial of smallpox or carrying a nuclear-bomb briefcase, could, in theory, wipe us out—“them” being what the … Maginot Line. But the Chinese weren’t obtuse, and Lovell points out that these series of barriers we’ve come to know …
… as it is the most concrete and explicit, of social expedients. One of the earliest consequences of an emerging … to be placed under that definite proscription of the community which is law. It was natural that the first of the … of law in a modern democratic state. There are two main points at issue. The first is the entire question of …