Editor's Desk
… their own epiphanies, would be as bemused as I was to come across a declaration that what they were doing was dead.” Meanwhile, Entertainment Weekly dryly commented, “Considering that reflection, introspection, and … plot, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a ghost story, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is a switched-at-birth yarn, and …
… A Common Ground of Liberalism Freedom Is More than a Word. By … extremely doubtful. One of the purposes of PM was, as Field points out, to bring to bear upon news “all the available … I suppose, this may be ascribed to his awareness of the audience for which he writes. Partly it may be the result of …
Memoir
… by Manjula Martin ( @manjulamartin ) is part of our online companion to our Spring 2013 issue on The Business of … store. There, I still had to flatten cardboard, but I also shelved pocketbooks—sci fi, mystery, and Westerns—in … from Some Canonical Author Dude” on one of the literary websites I frequent when I came across a news item about a …
… she’s more impressed by my long-handled pruners. She squeals as I snap off a pine sapling And it slumps to the dry … know it has something to do With the cluster of little tragedies In the hospital of my livelihood Last night. Snap off a …
Fiction
… to days. Reney likes it here okay. Christy lets her come into her room and listen to albums sometimes. She lets … mouth the entire Scripture along with her: “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with … house with noise and a sweet-smelling smoke that Reney has come to know. They leave behind safety glasses, a stray sock …
… Comedie Intellectuelle Laughing Truths. By Carl Spitteler. … in Valery’s widely diverse views about life and the materials of life. Everything in him draws its strength from this … interest of Spitteler’s “central attitude”—and all his points of view have their basis here. For example, he has a …