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… we were at the lodge bar being served by the bartender who also worked the front desk overnight, who was really, truly … women, so I was in the mood to drink. Sometimes I took comfort in the knowledge that the pilot was so egalitarian … in a past life, we were transcendent of time and of our bodies, that we could manipulate the world and the conditions …

… The following post by Courtney Watson is part of our online companion to our  Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … Luckily, the professor moved on to discussing the finer points of Coriolanus before I had a chance to make any more … had been to the other side of the looking glass. I almost died of envy. Though I’ve known for a long time that much of …

… wide branches hanging dustily over the pavement and the accompanying web of burro trails. It is the cooling, relaxing … Asia where imperialism has intervened, have accepted a hardier way of life: we must do better, let’s go, to hell with … came; and, following it, an opportunity for other men who also had desires to get rich at the expense of Mexico. But …

… it’s my grandmother again; here’s her heart condition and also ibis, wading ibis. Now my grandmother does her laundry, … here I lie and watch trees that seem stone arteries the bodies have been eroded from, gone to smoke like the passing … her cells. Only when some toy her brain has imagined alive comes at her will she cry, and wake. 503-504 By Ross Taylor …

… of Unbelief in America , by James Turner. Johns Hopkins $26.50 This stimulating work explores how and why disbelief … what it is trying to be: a chronological series of short studies of the major eras in science, usable either as … of modernism to date. Every reader will dispute some points of emphasis; despite a long (excellent) chapter on …