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… Like with much of Atxaga’s work, the writer originally composed the novel in Euskara, translated it himself into … takes us along into worlds seemingly like our own but also strange and tantalizing, filled with suspense, humor, … forgiven, or even praised? Why, for example, is it OK for Zadie Smith to fashion her novel “On Beauty” after E.M. …

… possesses subtler kinds of value. Bertrand Russell recommended it; others have also discovered its charms. But in … to the urgency of her need and the cleverness of her expedients. In both autobiographies, then, boredom provides a … of moral and psychological danger. Constituting, from some points of view, sin as well as suffering, boredom may …

… as they stake out positions in the field of American studies. In some books Miller hovers behind and within the … present almost like a muse, as if scholars were unable to compose a single sentence without acknowledging that it is … one is reading 700 pages, this makes a lot of difference. 526-532 By Philip F. Gura …

… suddenly that he was the boss of the place. He could go or come as he pleased, as long as the cow was milked and the … and the thought that maybe Mom or Bruce or Pa might die and be buried out there on the knoll by the sandhills … about God’s wisdom,” he said. “A man like that, his morals are as loose as his bowels.” “Ira!” Mrs. Chance said. “I …

… Thinkers. By Edmund Wilson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.75. One difference between Edmund Wilson and … must call the influence of the deeply dishonest, wilfully incomplete, and ultimately facile imagination. Such a poet … with the lines run together but with the initial capitals retained: a bastard and irritating presentation that …