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… a contribution on that count alone, but Rebel Storehouse also adds significantly to the growing literature on Civil … prewar images of Florida as an agricultural wonderland. In common with too many academic books these days, Rebel … in sociology and economics as well as in the law, Weber—who died in 1920—understood the Russian past, had no illusions …
Essays
… classic: it is an attempt to evoke, by means of a highly compressed and elliptical poetic language, the authentic … her beauty, she is aligned with the “magic” of the West Indies which he finds treacherous. One way of life, one … “fairer era of life was beginning” at Thornfield (“Externals have a great effect upon the young. . . . My faculties, …
… his seven-figure deal with Warner Brothers, was vindicated commercially by the book’s sales. Knopf set an initial press … over a period of years, he has developed a large audience of readers and admirers who are drawn to his original … Carter was born in 1955 into a family of professionals. His grandmother, Eunice Hunton Carter, had been one of …
Fiction
… from convivial rounds of tea—you could see these individuals leaping about the office, jazzed up on caffeine, … indignant in the face of imagined gossip. Can’t gents and ladies be friends? he pictured himself telling the naysayers. … in that attractive manner of hers, her sparse reddish bun coming loose, she marched to her new office. Siddiqui, …
Profiles
… is a series of interviews with professional writers who are also fathers, discussing how they balance the two, what the … be human. I first stumbled across him back in 2009 via the comments section of Will Hindmarch’s take on the Malcolm … dogs. You can find him on Twitter @ChuckWendig and at his website, terribleminds.com , where he frequently dispenses …
… it may be ventured that the promptness with which a group comes to desperation is the sign of its political wisdom. … that of patriotism. Madison and Gouverneur Morris were brigadiers in the Federalist army, Fisher Ames proved himself … second sentence declares it. The ingenuousness of individuals among the Federalists— Wadsworth, say—may be impugned, …