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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 …

… the resulting famine, in which one out of ten Somalis may die, the number of displaced persons has swollen to almost a … a clinic in Mogadishu holds the paperwork she will need to complete to receive care for her infant.  The heartland of … Dadaab—over the past two years, they’ve been cardinal points on the compass of what K’naan, a Somali rapper, calls …

… 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 …

… that wise ruler, to settle a dispute. One of the babies had died, and each woman insisted that she was the mother of the … story might have ended with tears and half-babies. That outcome might be just (if not a little hard-hearted), but it … lawful distribution of goods—not just concrete things, but also abstractions such as freedom. Something just has been …

… 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 …