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… and lead sordid lives in France as elsewhere; yet the audience for high literature is larger in France than in any … with us. The public respects the writer according to his income. And, alas, writers themselves respect chiefly and fear … the University of North Carolina—the rise of new Southern points of view, even now in the towns, is tied still to the …

… study, Jeffrey Steele divides the literary foot soldiers of the American Renaissance into two camps. Those who … St. Augustine to Saint Jacques (Derrida). The author justly points to the importance of ascesis in cultural history, and … a history that moves from St. Augustine to Stanley Fish and Company is somewhat grotesque—lacking in restraint, …

… take care of itself. If we believed unquestioningly in “the coming victory of democracy,” democracy would surely be … by silencing all dissent. It is Hitler’s method. It was Daladier’s: he felt himself a Clemenceau when he had deprived … when we know we are not. What we can do is to seek the points upon which there is no dissent, and make them the …

… brand new,” he continued as he took a handful of peanuts. “Also, now that he’s in the hospital, old Bink needs the … an old bemused search of familiar ground, as if she might come across something she had never seen there but, at the … that he had a turn in the younger man’s schedule. He studied the manufacture of the wagon and could see the new …

… is full of hypocrisy. Life and death run side by side in competition. Emotions are stratospherically high. And yet … a pile of sandbags is manned by two or three young soldiers, polite but firm with journalists like me when we ask … boxes and distribute across the country. Thousands of meals are made in the restaurants’ kitchens, delivered to the …