… costly surgeries to obtain the extraordinarily feminine bodies that are, in turn, the source of their wealth. The … just for tonight, to get some euros. But she has an ad on a website with her phone number. She gets a routine phone call … though a period of depression and her weight went up to 265 pounds, Frederic explains to me. Now she’s lost 80 …
Criticism
… of literature is simply “indifference.” Against the coming wave of mass indifference, we can do nothing but join … England love Shakespeare? Didn’t entrenched WWI soldiers read Jane Austen to escape the unprecedented carnage? … institutions of liberal internationalism,” Emre says. She points out, “the paranoid literary aesthetics” of Man Who …
… in July. His father said something about visitation and coming by the house to pick Chase and Larry up for a weekend … stops the group at the display of a see-through engine. He points at the spinning radiator fan, at the pistons that … all over for you.” The bald emcee squints out at the audience, then hands the mike back over to the fiddleplayer. …
Poetry
Flat Valley In Darkness I can’t drive anymore and find a park in Bakersfield where it is quiet and there are no other cars. And can’t sleep. And find the freeway again and start the long slope up the Grapevine, the long drive that in memory seems ten …
… Century and After published over my signature in June, 1926. I was not able to go into the soul of other peoples … me green with envy. This volume formed a climax to my studies. II It was Austria’s declaration of war against Servia … first essay to catch the Austrian and the Servian points of view. I should like to insist at the outset, how …
… Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd. Acknowledged by all but the most die-hard of supporters as an unrivaled villain in South … his country after the South African “miracle” of 1994. He points to Mandela’s public encouragement of black South … depicting the internment of Afrikaner women and children, 26,000 of whom died during the course of the war. “We can’t …