Essays
… wouldn’t take long and that his firm couldn’t pay me for my comments. Well, I was busy, and besides that, I figured he … up in some clever and entertaining television commercials too. In one commercial, a long-haired teenager is … after several of these panels, that someone in the audience almost always raised a question about the psyches of …
Fiction
… they’d sent him home. The nurse had warned him no more false calls and patted his back to reassure him that death … Your mother’s worried. He waves at me from the car to come on. Listen, I’ve got to go. I can hear her cracking … see my father through the window banging on the counter. He points toward the bathroom door, which has a yellow pole …
Reporting
… Kyrgyzstan for this observation mission, not everyone welcomes the observers. That will make our job more … it was not a popular language. In fact, those of us who studied English instead of German or French were sometimes … here, in a former communist country. At one of the checkpoints there’s a fuss, and Saule gets out with the driver …
… Sansloy or a Braggadocchio. This suggests what is in fact a commonplace in Renaissance treatments of the subject: that … along in the force of passion. In the early romantic comedies, the metamorphoses of love bring a Berowne or an … For metamorphosis bears witness to the power of change; also to the capacity of humankind to experience change, to …
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… its official stamp on the “separate but equal” doctrine. He died in Oxford in 1962, the year of James Meredith’s … backdrop of that “color line,” its implications and complexities. William Faulkner tends to be viewed by unwary … concerning interracial mixture. (My emphasis) As Jordan points out, it was the Anglo-Saxon way to treat even a …