… epics, and a preponderance of these works deals with the unfolding imperial diagram that became the … be sure that in 1992 some sober assessments will be forthcoming concerning the closing down of America’s … place in the neighborhood of Washington and Jefferson. A soldier-statesman by birthright, Lewis had a natural aptitude …
Essays
… guys from Caitland’s office got into this pissing contest, completely soaked a table-cloth doing it. I don’t know why … that can change emotions in the recipient, and in most mammals, more readily than can information from other sensory … (High-tech science: get some women volunteers at known points in their cycles to rub their undeodranted armpits …
… The Life and Works of Edward Coote Pinkney: A Memoir and Complete Text of His Poems and Literary Prose, Including … which clear the meaning and intent of the poems at many points. This feature, indeed, is one of the most carefully … among the few who know of the young Maryland Cavalier who died at twenty-six; who had lived with song and danger, and …
… selections, among them many which are reprinted comparatively seldom: Euripides’ “Ion,” Ren .(onson’s … Affairs and is printed in English for the first time [Didier $2.50], Prompted by the present world conflict, Duell, … edition of Waldo Frank’s “Virgin Spain,” first printed in 1926 [$3.50]. Bernard Darwin’s “At Odd Moments” is a slim, …
VQR Vault
… The writer Leslie Jamison is a good friend of mine. She’s also a contributor to this magazine whose work I’ve edited … a poem about Jamestown for the magazine’s Autumn 1957 issue commemorating the settlement, Jarrell claimed to “like the … Magazine Award in Public Interest. In her note, Parshley points out that fire weed is Alaska’s unofficial state …
… York. Two years later Heme returned to the battle with a comedy which was a compromise between homely realism and … Mansfield) to the play, to the ideas of Ibsen, Shaw, Galsworthy, Gorky, and also inevitably reduced dialogue to … to express human truths and to rouse the emotions of an audience. Some truths can best be expressed that way; some, …