… Night. By Andrew Lytic. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. $2.50. Courthouse Square. By Hamilton, Basso. New … of probability, and of artistic reality; since it also presents human though fictionalized life, there is a … usually labeled “regional.” If Mr. E. P. O’Donnell had studied the best work of the local colorists and added to that …
Reporting
… rooted in his Brooklyn childhood. His father, a tool-and-die machinist, collected amphibians from the borough’s … their students. This financial burden is partly why only 26 percent of Cambodians make it to tenth grade. Among those … fishermen—hitched together by branching lines of decision points and feedback loops. Several arrows ring the …
Essays
… arms outstretched like swan’s necks (or white serpent’s bodies, depending upon your mood), while a line of rapturous … in the box in my living room reminded me of Harry Hope’s complaint in The Iceman Cometh: “Bejees, what did you do to … four and one-eighth inches by five and seven-eighths. I also have a few holding my place for me in half-read books. …
Balance is how you carry it, how it is; for example, the turkeys which seemed ordinary—grazing through the piled brush for butternuts, all head and feathers, then taking the shot because they didn’t see you standing on a stump, one dying outright, the …
… One of the Animals Why does a dog get sick? —You tell me. What does he do … Does it make a difference? —You tell me. Does he live or die? —You tell me. Does it make a difference? —That one … One of the Animals …
Essays
… Did I trade in my scholarly aspirations and become an effete arranger of bouquets? What redeems literary … W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, author of numerous critical studies of modern literature, and then master of perhaps the … real foreign words or his invention (see note 2 on page 263, vol. 2, for the answer), or when a fellow anthologist …