… Conquer Russia. By Maurice Hindus. Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.00. Mission to Moscow. By Joseph E. Davies. … liberation directed against plutocracy, and its propaganda also made an appeal to the loyalty of the masses. For a long … statistics and diplomatic materials, relating them at all points to the living body of the people and the nature of …
… added to the bad mood begun by the open screen door. He was also thinking about his father, who hovered near death only … a stroke in early spring, just when everything else was coming back to life, including his son’s garden, which he … up where she left off until last year, when her mother died and left her an antique violin, the very one she …
Interviews
… widely anthologized and published in numerous literary journals (including an essay in VQR in 1990). However, in … experience the terror of presenting work before an audience of critics. Over the years I am always re-learning … a good thing, because the interview or conversation becomes a discipline in paying close attention and in choosing …
… I am apprehensive, elated, curious, expectant: a Yankee come to the Deep South. There doesn’t seem much cause for … fable the actual graduation of a wife of a Confederate soldier at Russell Auditorium, where Flannery O’Connor herself … her after graduation. I tried to stay away from her, she points out. She had a very sharp tongue, and I did not want …
Essays
… City. Behind the high wall of the police-headquarters complex, the cars are piled three, four, even five high, their rusted bodies giving the area around them the feel of a junkyard. For … nor has he been captured by any branch of the same. October 26, 1972: Information is released that he is not detained by …
Essays
… as well as the what, and in changing the how great poetry also changes the what. —Kevin Hart, interview He didn’t have … knew at least how to say it. Cold comfort. (“Buffalo Yoga”) Poets who dwell in the same style … John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, and Hayden Carruth) have made a compelling strategy out of the long line, only C. K. …