… Life. By Ellen Glasgow. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. On the principle of setting a thief to catch … Rosicky”) the good Rosicky, despite medical warning, dies as a result of working his son’s fields in an effort to … with which Miss Glasgow has made us familiar. One notes also in the present volume the vestigial remnants of the …
Articles
… mutually exclusive threats, did not enter into the popular computation of the menaces that hung over us. But one had … no exception. How he is now, and how he got that way may be points of historical interest, but how to bring him around … In addition to police, it took fifty-five thousand soldiers to restore order, and the property damage ran into …
… Baba Baba feeds me with his own hand. The night my friend died he pressed dark chocolate into a macaroon, popped it in … the color of mint. Sometimes he ignores me for weeks, then comes to me in dreams riding a tractor or sitting on a … abortion, what about gay people, what happens when you die? In the silence before he answers I know the stories …
… With her long sandy waves and large grey eyes, she is becoming quite a temptress, and Lev wonders idly at what age … “Of course. Your mother gave it to us before she died. You think I was going to leave it to those wolves in … its crumbling newspaper—”Artists inspire miners in the Urals,” read the silly ancient headline—and, sitting on the …
… The Impending Crisis, 1848—1861 . By David M. Potter. Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Harper & Row. $15.00. LONG before David Potter died in 1971 historians had impatiently awaited his volume … incorporated in the territorial laws. Johannsen’s biography also probably would have forced a reworking of Potter’s …
Poetry
… box of ashes, its odd white weight, the brick of a life compacted there as if it gripped the man inside it. Unsteady …