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… Books, Summer 1985 Readers who relish the novels of I. Compton-Burnett will find their enjoyment heightened by this … leaders adds a new degree of sophistication to a heavily studied topic. His final chapter, a narrative account of one … an anthologist, and Norton, a military man, have collected 26 stories veterans have written about our experience on …

… at the Vermont State House. The house and senate judiciary committees had called an extraordinary hearing to give the … the language they used and the emotional tenor of their appeals showed the ways that what we often describe as a … life. He and his partner had cared for his father as he died. “We understood what the term family means, and I have …

… and detail over the course of decades in his private journals. To be sure, the larger his collection of thinkers, the … A rational worldview may well be liberating, but it hardly comforted his existential fears. The enlightened discourses … Boswell, is his reply: “Yes. Remember always that there are points at which our souls are bound.” Overwhelmed, Boswell …

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… patterns of imagery, structure, and voice to command our attention. Thus if we simply discuss his … for abstractions. His new novel begins with these lines: “Come into my cell. Make yourself at home. Take the chair; … the listener. (I am reminded of Poe’s narrators who also talk and talk, attacking and justifying their obscure …