Fiction
… a kid unwrapping a Christmas present—she had already become Kat. Like the rest of the ramen-fueled hordes of art … a few years before the new trees and the swing sets and the DIE YUPPIE SCUM stencils on the smooth-bricked … It was just music geeks showing off, she knew that, but she also knew that as they talked about mail-order import …
Reporting
… Reverse? Up until this week, if you’d asked an American soldier or Marine what the worst place in all Afghanistan was, … most dangerous, bloodstained, shot at, ambushed, the least comfortable, the hardest to get in or out of, the most … to be “in its last throes.” But the Korengal situation also underscores one of the central paradoxes of modern war, …
… him I want to touch most. So, when I think he is going to die, when I believe the bed in in the hospital will too become his body, I resist the whole of him, placed where we …
… Costa Brava, 1959 Ted had been terribly sick in Saulieu, a combination of too much wine and a poisonous fish soup, and … agent had said that Spain would be cheap, but she had also said that it would be warm in Europe; and when they had … all day long in their small car on narrow roads, dodging diesel trucks and ox carts and every 50 kilometers a …
… statue in Victoria Gardens, adjacent to the House of Commons “There has been no other woman like Emmeline … to raise five children and remain a homemaker. When he died in 1898, a heartbroken wife vowed to carry on his … activism. As she told a Daily News reporter in January 1926: “It was always a great grief to me to have to put aside …
… By Claude G. Bowers. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company. $5.00. Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson. By … Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (1812-1826). Selected with comment by Paul Wilstach. Indianapolis: … Universitaires, Paris. Jefferson is one of those immortals around whom the storms of controversy have ever raged. …