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… that is Beirut’s tragedy. If the city were allowed to die—if its airport closed forever, if its imports and … as an example of the mordant, melancholy wit that has become as natural to the Lebanese as the olives, parsley, and radishes that prelude their traditional meals. “You have to laugh,” I was told, “Or else . . ” The …
… Monopolies: Order or Chaos Full employment is becoming an issue as crucial as that of preserving the Union … policy should the New Deal adopt towards monopolies? Two points of view may be found in the positions taken by Mr. I. … as I understand his recent writings in The Nation (“Liberals Never Learn” and “A New N. R. A.”), advocates the public …
Memoir
… past. I have always been a writer, but I’ve never been a competent diarist; until that summer, I had measured out my … place by the door. This was 2004, the year my best friend died, and I stopped taking pictures of the world because it … linear narrative. Photographs offered characters, plot points; the album shaped these into story. But if the album …
… cultural critic in the academic field of American studies. But when I saw what I had said in print, I discovered … academe, and unfortunately language and literature have come to have almost the whole of their self-conscious … values, the 17th-century Puritan intelligentsia, Walzer points out, were moral activists imbued with the sense of …
… still from Monday, but without the people. Some ducks come up and attack me for the food. I move away a bit, and … with the lights out, alone. Here it is six days after you died, and still I want to tell you these things. 261-262 By Lynn Doyle …
… twice before he’d even finished his cigar. The idea had come to him in a flash. “Look at this, Shirley! She’s at it … snap you with a dishtowel or chew his cigar ends. Marcy studied a gold-framed family portrait. With his family, Ernest … just calling in, killing time while the laundry dried. And also—Skipper was barking. Was Shelley out by the pool? She …