Essays
… Raising a kid in a world chock full of potential tragedies—the exposed electric sockets! the careless drivers! the … just that he’s already as strong and smart and stocked with common sense as a goodly number of adults. He’s just as … Virginia; she blogs regularly for VQR. Visit her website at jenniferniesslein.com . motherhood By Jennifer …
… before leaving the house unfinished at his death in 1826. Throughout, Jefferson’s declared love for the … many different purposes and, not least, with a national audience in mind. The symbol of the ideally constructed house … Monticello is a virtual glass house with vistas to all points of the compass from the open expanse of its first …
… calls out redpolls, Lapland Longspurs, Snow Buntings—all common birds here. Janet is a serious lister and eager for a … learn Spanish so she might have a new perspective on her studies. I stored her books and clothes for her—a few boxes … me. “I saw the spirit bird,” he says. “The dotterel?” He points at the splintered coffin. “It came from in here.” In …
… old fool. If you do you will find yourself in the company of a great many Americans, some of them adjudged … intellectual capacity, especially in mathematics, but also in philosophy, which does not rule out the possibility … this is another instance in which he was talking very uncommon sense when he seemed to be dithering. Russell …
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… Oxbridge manners amid the alien kasha, but one can prattle comfortably only in the familiar tongue of a godparent—old … is: “What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?” If you answer: “Nothing,” you are neither a novelist, … repression, a means of ostracizing social mavericks, Spacks also links it to the exercise of individual and group …