Essays
… first years of his literary activity. With his “Poor Folk,” completed by him in the spring of 1845 (when he was 24), and … and prophesied a brilliant future for Dostoevsky. Belinsky also published an article in the Otechestvennya Zapiski in … scorch my bald pate in the heat of the noonday sun? Shall I die without having seen anything? II In 1862 Dostoevsky went …
… derives from bis knowledge and appreciation of the medieval cosmos. Like the Scholastics’ icres, his too have … is simple in detail and action, complex in motive and fcelirij and tropical as well as primitive in even word and … applied in the actual operation of our government. These points of view lend freshness and vitality to Professor …
Fiction
… and the same rules which governed the natural world were also true for our family’s own ecosystem. When I was four, … in the event of a superdrought. Though he didn’t come out and say it, I gathered our location over the … women, ex-cons, transexuals estranged from their fundie relations. The first time my sister and I visited the …
… or to weep. I wasn’t prepared for this, though, for the commotion when the monitors started going haywire, for the … I am not dying and my baby is not dying. I will not let him die. You can’t have him, You cannot have him!, I silently … that illuminates a light for viewing X-rays. “See.” He points to the middle of an X-ray. I look, but I have no idea …
… Mr. Pribanov (beneath the greasy kid stuff that preserved comb tracks in a plaster cast). The Soviets could produce … of you to the nearest camp. If you share it, you will both die of starvation. Right now, the single precious sliver of … in this Siberia, as I’ve described it, there are only two points of view. “Every” means his and yours, or at most …
… The Neutral Love Object On the way over to the Island they composed the kind of grouping commonly sought by fashion … course the dog, the obligatory panting Golden retriever obediently sprawled at his master’s feet. The difference being, … slavishly for the sandwich crusts and cake crumbs that were also his birthright. Once at a cocktail party a psychiatrist …