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… on the fingers of your hands. It’s a large number that conceals mysteries. Also, to hold a hecatomb is considered the … chieftains no longer terrorize nations. What insurgent commander would come up to the ankle of Timour-Leng?! He who … on a sheet of crimson. * * * Skulls split with axes, bodies hacked to bits, eyes gouged out, breasts torn off, …

… of the French and Indian War a century ago that has become a classic account of that conflict. Now Atheneum has … of Fred Anderson’s A People’s Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven fears’ War. Anderson’s … American Guide Series, New York Panorama is a collection of 26 essays touching on every aspect of the city’s life from …

… Hawk-Man   I’m a man who believed that I died twenty years ago,  and I live like a man who is dead … home. I don’t have to read further; I know of the week to come—the flight to Detroit,  the Ford Auditorium, the … The image is editorial, a day after the fire, but the composition is classical: The Deposition , Christ’s descent …

… either as a ripple in the stream of cars funneling into San Diego, or as part of a caravan slouching to Ensenada. For … with a vial of smallpox or carrying a nuclear-bomb briefcase, could, in theory, wipe us out—“them” being what the … Maginot Line. But the Chinese weren’t obtuse, and Lovell points out that these series of barriers we’ve come to know …

… unreasonable to assume,” I wrote in a 1985 essay called “Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War” (published in VQR, V. 63, No. … Francisco State University) proved that assumption to be false. “Best of all,” I added, “poets like [Bruce] Weigl and … questions is yes. Here is what the poets I discussed have accomplished since I wrote that essay. John Balaban has …