Essays
… for, well, just about everything. Making music is an embodied competence, and some significant proportion not only of … all”), leading students to speak directly to each other’s points but jumping in just enough to give shape to the … or change in the music, will occur on August 5, 2026, when an A will begin sounding. That note will cease to …
… human beings are addicted has been discussed, with varying competence. Most of the contributors are Southern-born and … for any future discussion of the theme with which it deals. This book is overdue chiefly, one suspects, not because … the Mayflower on an eastbound passage and recognize more completely than he now can, the ties that bind him to the …
Essays
… Foreign Bodies “The exile is a ball hurled high into the air. He hangs … to Los Angeles for two weeks to celebrate his mother’s upcoming wedding—“not her second or third,” Andrew would later … a tourist visa—“an expired tourist visa,” Andrew painfully points out—and has had to submit a green-card application to …
… the unique contexts of language and culture from which it comes. The meanings and the values, however, are all … that it was a good school in chemistry and premedical studies, in which I planned to major, and that this school with … Kenyon and especially a student of Ransom’s as a pupil, and also announced that he was a great admirer of Wimsatt’s The …
… one book on birds or plants. God, how he hopes he hasn’t come just for a self-portrait. So in the gassy air with … at his feet and grow dark. They are wasted. But, if it comes to that, they are not more wasted than marble, which …
… was even worse. When the battle was over, more than 260,000 people would be dead. II Four months before I wrote … He said, ‘I didn’t bring you up to the age of 16 to die.’ I thought he was a traitor to say such a thing. I went … a dozen or so, sometimes more than 100 hitting at various points along the ping line and into the shelters of Okinawa. …