Essays
… the house was beautifully situated in a whitewashed medieval village and from the sunny roof terrace we could see … three nights. Since Karl’s place lacks Wi-Fi I had to compose my complaint the next day from the terrace of the … Spain marriage children Travel family house hotel vacation 126-131 By Mark Sundeen Illustration by Jedidiah Dore …
… forbidden word even more. “If he hollers, let him go.” He also added codas if “moe” brought his finger to one of us … I mean— and true, I guess Queen Esther might have come from such a tall African tribe. She was at least six … we waited for her bus. “Well, bye,” I’d say when the Five Points bus to downtown Atlanta came, “see you Monday.” She’d …
… to visit the University of Virginia. Knowing that they had come from visits to Williamsburg and Monticello, I could not … In the Aug. 15, 1980, issue of Lishi Yanzhou (Historical Studies) —China’s most authoritative historical … justifying revolution. After the American Revolution, he points out, Jefferson was not a public agitator; his …
… the book of the dead it is written she had 15 children: 2 died before her, 2 went off to America, and 11 survived her … Clark of Nebraska, daughter of Edward and Augusta, was to become in her turn wife to Edwin Samuel Nelson, second son of … of the evergreens they had always loved. And in the annals of Kansas agriculture they say this of Johnson …
… by Nicholson Baker. Simon & Schuster, March 2008. $30 Compared to the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq, World War … heroes of the Greatest Generation were not the Allied soldiers who fought the war, but the pacifists who tried to … case of the US, the development of the atom bomb, but Baker points out that neither leader did much to prevent the …
… How tall, how wide, how deep is all Grave love, who must compute the yardage By measure of a primal rule. Against my … inch. INTRINSIC COIN UPON my metal’s passive flan The last die printed shall erase Al1 other lettered legends and All … descend the forging blow. Falls through the winter sun the die! Imprinted now is last device. Forevermore whoever must …