Criticism
… Weapon Devised by Humankind? Thomas Pynchon found an accommodating symbol in the Aggregat 4 (aka the V-2) rocket, a … of cause and effect signaled the story’s other reversals. An extensive “System,” as Pynchon termed it, built to … minds” to solve the technical problem of obliterating “bodies, minds, cities, and landscapes” at ever greater scale? …
Memoir
… against the curved plastic band.” I pushed forward. “Come forward, please.” I pushed forward again. My eyes were … Agassi hung on the walls, the same National Latin Exam medals hung over the trophies on my bookcase. But the lines on … from my Psych-1 class that reassured me. We’d read about studies that showed that sighted people have all kinds of …
… historic. The percentage of black families with annual incomes of $50,000 or more, he recalls, increased from 5.8 per … long as there was no implication of social equality.” As he points out several times in the book, Ashmore himself … is fundamentally and perhaps unalterably inferior. He is also immoral, indolent, inept, incapable of learning and …
… and shovel hardpan, seven pairs of eyes, and five o’clock becomes a distant mirage of shimmering nerves. First day on … the guys call good honest dirt, I thumb a ride from the competition boss who laughed me off his job when I asked for … make some man a fine wife someday.” He is telling me I am becoming a good carpenter in disguise. 4 What I am looking to …
Art & The Archive
… craning my neck, to run a hand through my hair before it comes to look as clamped to my head as the calyx on top of … Chance helped: The formidable, generous, and brilliant website Le Cinema Club, which hosts free streams, with … for each other and the camera, knowing that some future audience lies in wait. Calle announces at the start that the …
Fiction
… much. Clayton Appleby attached a sturdy snowplow to his sturdiest tractor, and he was usually able to clear the way … and grandmother, and the sight of her red hat and dark head coming across the snow fields was as common as seeing a … of the three and probably the most like her mother. It was also the year Jamie saved up his money and gave his father a …