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… the Soviets dominated the global scene, other powers are coming to the fore. “As these traditional powers of Europe … her debut as a VQR author, Kelly Cherry is hardly a newcomer to the literary scene. A member of the English … shorter work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as The Atlantic, Commentary, Iowa Review, Southern …

… England may be somewhat overlooked as an age of fops and dandies, characterized largely by the increasingly dissolute … of detail put to the service of Murray’s fine eye for the comic and her plain, cheerful gift for historical narrative. … Infantryman in Korea, by William D. Dannenmaier. Illinois $26,95 The Korean “police action” of 1950—53 is sometimes …

… (Whitman to Horace Traubel) Sex contains all, bodies, souls, Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, … is how our national poet keeps re-emerging at key points in the terms of presidents in the century-plus since … Nick Gillespie in Reason. The Tabloid News Service (January 26, 1998) reported it this way: “The book—Whitman’s classic …

… vulgar to show the navel, my mother says. Sometimes Willie comes out to find me and swears she will tell if I do this … red plaid dress, with short sleeves that point, and sandals. We’re the only ones up, and I walk back to the kitchen … baste themselves again. Their burnished-gold gleaming bodies radiate the smell of coconut and salt and hot sand, the …

… in the Straw Pen. By John Fort. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. $2.50. A Calendar of Sin. By Evelyn Scott, New … goods and chattels from Virginia to Kentucky,. Even in 1826, when the story proper opens, there is a rift in the … of the volume. “Red Leaves” is one of the few successful studies of terror in my acquaintance— more successful, for …