Essays
… dissolution of city services, decay and the chaos that comes with it. I grew up around the detritus of urban … Detroit the eleventh most populated city in the US. It is also 80% black, according to the last available US census. … And the stress—I do feel strongly that the stress—he died the 28th of June. They call you back in September, and …
Memoir
… alfalfa, too, to bale for his fifty head of cattle. He also kept pigs, chickens, the odd goat or horse. He had one … no. So Arnie walked over. His hair was a feathery brown comb-over and he wore carefully groomed muttonchops on his … ponds. Her hobbies were reading and fashion, which she studied in magazines before sewing her own clothes. Fabric …
… that was so. Cohén is opening up a debate that exists in medieval religious history by recasting its main terms and the … and a French professor. Everyone intrigued by the finer points of gender studies, French studies, cultural studies, … a jilted groom and a missing bride; the action of Murdoch’s 26th novel involves the musings, lamentations, and …
Poetry
… his brother Howard In the Thearle Music Building in San Diego in the fifties, Which probably would have made me an … without the smarts. It’s politics Where stupidity and style combine to form the perfect storm, As a host of stylized, … Of the Sunday morning talk shows, mouthing talking points In chorus, playing their parts with panache and …
… run-off. He had seen it in other years, had learned not to come before mid-April, no matter how much earlier spring … he carried those genes rather than his mother’s. She had died when she was 55 after an adulthood of heart problems. … floor were still shuttered and boarded up. But he did it also to reassure himself. Seth’s voice was so slow and eerie …
… Happen To Other People . By John Portmann. Routledge. $26.95. When President Bill Clinton in August 1998 finally … in the misfortunes of others, is one of those useful German compound nouns that have been naturalized into our English … exploration of the problem from several angles. As he points out, if suffering has no meaning, schadenfreude could …