… of American Historians, and coeditor of the forthcoming Refurnishing the Public Square: Religion and Public … (minor in literature)from Drexel University. He later studied at the University of Virginia before joining the Peace … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www.vqronline.org/ EDITORIAL OFFICES: ONE …
… preface by Arthur Walcy. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, and Company. $3.00. The story of “The Dream of the Red Chamber” … clouds and lakes appear in novel perspective, officials reach posts of distinction by mastery of the classics, … and regrets canker their absences. Pao-yu loafs in his studies and is chidden by his father. Lie falls ill. The …
Essays
… incorporeal agency, that takes away a large part of his income if he is very rich, and gives him a large part of his … for almost fifty million dollars. This is a mere expedient and represents no saving at all, for under the … for museums, zoological and botanical gardens, etc., $265,000; and for health, sanitation, hospitals, and child …
Fiction
… envisioned a spray-tanned public-relations major at a local community college. She pictured the girl’s manicured nails … squat brown men in huge sombreros—serenaded them. Kate studied the girls’ faces, wondering which one was the owner of … but that had since become the backdrop to Pepsi commercials. It was a small thing, but it irritated her, the music …
Interviews
… 2009). He is a professor of English, African American Studies, and Creative Writing at Washington University in St. … as well as several other poems you’ve published in journals this year, do not appear in your newest book, Speak Low … a quality you’ve cultivated? Or is this just what you do—a compulsion, perhaps—and you happen to finish poems …
… plundered and burned. Bands of brigands roamed as in the medieval Jacquerie, their victims dangling from tall trees. … verge of bankruptcy. Successive ministers of finance had come and gone as in a revolving door, their only recourse … the National Convention on the 8th of Thermidor (July 26th). It was sultry when the deputies assembled at 11 a.m. …