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… to pick up on a few of the very clear and very relevant points Almond lays out, which Roiphe ignored in her essay. … argues for the explicit sexual conundrums in Portnoy’s Complaint and Rabbit, Run, and waxes poetic for “something … and powerful—but they aren’t in any way meant to be ideals. Second—and Almond vociferously defends his peers in his …

… and a few more synonyms suggesting bewilderment, you might come close to describing the problem Americans have in … Dick Nixon was shy in his personal dealings with individuals and small groups but at ease when performing in … there was a McCarthy, there was McCarthyism and, as Ambrose points out, the “soft on communism” campaign label was such …

… line that imposes everything onto her. The third line, completing the sentence, reconciles extremes in a generous … leaves him more anxious than most writers to reach that audience and shape their sense of him. He can only be who he … reviewing. This interesting bit of reception history points to cross currents in democracy itself: independence …

… lots of people are killed. But earthquakes aren’t much more common in Haiti than in, say, the American Midwest. So the … was no escaping death. It literally surrounded us, as bodies were everywhere—on sidewalks and streets, buried in … morgue and main hospital in Port-au-Prince. I made my way also to the central Port-au-Prince business district, a …

… the white lace-up back brace—the president’s back had become so painful that he couldn’t have sat in the car without … student said, as if he had been asked a question. “Children die. Malnutrition. Mothers don’t know better.” The train, … “LBD” as she called it, as every-one called it since 1926 when she pointed out that black should not just be for …