Essays
… of microbiology at the University of Tennessee, studies microbes that have absurdly long lifespans. Many of … of how long we’d been traveling. All the usual reference points of existence—light, a horizon line, sky—were gone. … stayed in her cave for eighty-eight days, and Senni went 126 days before emerging. When Laures came out, on March 12, …
Photography
… all the things we’re doing wrong. But these images aren’t a commentary on global warming. I didn’t think about global … pools of blue that appeared in the whiteness. There was also a stream, this tiny blue ribbon. So we followed it. … on top, along with the black silt. It has texture, little points. It’s not slippery. You could run on it. You could …
… the main highway, landing on a shell road like an airplane coming down wrong. He had to find his cousin Floyd before … the hood. T-Jean was afraid of the brimming roadside canals, so he watched instead the white frame house up ahead in … in a scream of machinery and a rattling black column of diesel smoke. Trees snapped under his tires like breaking …
… Mistress of the minded Q, the pointed I I knew discretion comes to order, and the million likenesses add up to one … molecular affinities, I mean the world to him, he’ll fix my Comet, I will feed his Milky Way machine. I mean nothing to …
… and the past president of the Ulster County Chamber of Commerce. He buys a new Cadillac every three years; when he … into a talking frame of mind and for that he needs an audience. A natural showman, he prefers the stage of the … moments, the accretion of inside jokes, and the common points of reference that are the closest most people ever …
… Virginia. By Burton J. Hendrick. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.75. To write the history of a family is a risky … made politics an honorable profession among us. He knows also that this kind of leadership has never been … by his son, Robert E. Lee, when he led the Confederate soldiers. Insurrection within a state and the secession of a …