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… Traveller He was known as the American Traveller. He died young and was forgotten. Except for a brief revival of … of literary history. Tourists in Mexico run across his journals now and again, as I did. Usually he survives on the … by Etruscans or Phoenicians, the Chinese, Vikings, or more commonly the lost tribes of Israel who journeyed to the New …

… Summer 1983 The fabled assumption is that people long to come to the US because of the opportunities it offers: free … education, a chance to work, basic liberty. For children coming alone, the truth is often much darker than that. … folk music, is not only a thing of beauty in itself; it is also an indispensable basis for art development.  George …

… vicious strokes of the chopper. Margaret Bolton did not welcome what she called “rattle-pated chatter” during culinary … on shirts and wore their caps over their eyes. Their bodies dragged along after their heads, as if a wizard’s spell … down the street in an arrhythmic burst, and when engines died, the silence was broken only by hushed voices and …

… she had to lift herself on tip-toe, her round, bare heels coming out of her shoes, to reach his lips. Hettie was … her eyes, walked over to the full length mirror. She studied herself close up. Her hair sticky from the salt in the … not just across the ocean but around the world. After a false start in Oakland, not a month before—the plane did a …

… of Howard N. Meyer’s XIV, The Amendment That Refused to Die [$5.95]. Massachusetts is offering a new hardback … Jr.’s The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, A Social Compact [$15.00], Dee Brown’s saga of the westward movement … edition of Stefan Morawski’s Inquiries into the Fundamentals of Aesthetics [$7.95]. Pantheon Books has published a …