… all the excitement of a footnote. Since Wilson’s accomplishments were many, it is difficult to understand why … notes at the conclusions of the letters in explanation of points for the reader. Robert Louis Stevenson , by James … is flawless, evincing the style which earned Hennessy, who died in 1973, deserved recognition as a first-rate …
Essays
… insecure in his masculinity to stoop to serve wounded soldiers who fought in the Civil War. The conditions of the … while the suffering of another person could never be fully comprehended, it was his duty to serve as a conduit to the … of this invincible hope. Walt Whitman AIDS medicine Poetry 126-127 By Rafael Campo …
Editor's Desk
… A former marine, Morris contributes Entries from The New Combat Contractionary: An Exercise in Interpretive … ,” by David J. Morris, Winter 2008 The New York Times is also taking this opportunity to look back, with their “Five … Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War commemorative website. They combine video, still photos, interview audio, …
… Elmer Gantry. Dodsworth. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50 each. Impossible as judicious appraisal is … others in these novels — thin caricatures, grotesque parodies like Sharon Turner, the staff of the McGurk Institute, … left out of life, its simple faith in a thing called Ideals. We compare his books with the serene art of Ellen …
Criticism
… of devastation. Within months came records, poems, novels, comics, essays, academic and political studies, films, TV shows, exposés, paintings, blogs. Now there … only what context immediately informs his scenes. He also resists the standard encomia to pat Big Easyisms— …
… Auden, and William Butler Yeats, no casual versifiers. Audiences crowd “poetry” readings in night clubs and community centers. When I asked a colleague who teaches … flooding in the context of history. Respected journals continue to pay tribute to poetry. The New Yorker, The …