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… and, its less-than-perfect practice, much less the first to comment on the ways in which 19th-century America struggled … on which many of its most memorable moments are set, it is also wide enough to take on the full range of American … novel would corrupt the young—of Concord and, presumably points west and south. The charge is a very old one and has …

… by his aide, Sorensen, all reflected a pursuit of expedience more than excellence. Wills believes that Kennedy’s … of foreign policy strikes Wills as a dismal amalgam of anti-Communist hysteria, reckless posturing, and a disturbingly … still faithful to the myth, Ted Kennedy inevitably disappoints; to those disillusioned by recent revelations about …

Painter and Model (I)   Because she paints barefoot, she’s barefoot in his painting of her painting. Well, not painting, but modeling for him as the painter she is and gazing toward her ostensible model, splayed nude on a battered brown leather …

… the World Had Gilt Upon It Anew england salt-water farm comes about as near Arcady as any piece of earth one can … muscles that it took all of half an hour for the old cat to die, for me to come to the full stop and so surrender my … spoiled the grass for acres. After the tarring, came the shoals of fish on the wharves and silver flakes on everything. …

… anachronistic way when Beck, a darling of literary indie-rock aficionados, released Song Reader , an album in the … by McSweeney’s and was supplemented with a crowd-sourced website, where fans uploaded their own interpretations of … Reader became a favorite of the staffs at NPR, NewYorker.com, and Kurt Andersen’s Studio 360, where the host and a …