… Voltaire’s English Years: (1726–1728) Early in May 1726, the London newspapers announced … him in the box of the actress Adrienne Lecouvreur at the Comédie Française and subsequently had his lackeys beat him up. … Voltaire’s English Years: (1726–1728) …
Criticism
… hundred thousand copies of their books. But Mark Strand embodies a different sort of “celebrity.” After all, how many … but rarely any poems. His Selected Poems of 1980 comprises Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), Reasons for … stages of a poetic career, we might apply it here. Donoghue points to Darker as the transitional book; Kirby, to The …
… of the Sky. By Hobert Douglas Skid-more. Houghton Mifflin Company. $2.00. Hast by Southwest. By Christopher La Farge. … like the typical apprentice in Arnold Zweig’s earlier studies of the German Army, is caught between these … areas of history have suddenly become the vantage points of the future. The incredible pressure of …
Reporting
… of Iraq’s government, has six major ECPs (Entry Control Points), all of them guarded by armed-to-the-teeth men and … Kurdish Peshmergas, proud but highly disciplined soldiers, unwilling to associate with the rabble of the Iraqi … Reporting. Learn more about this project on the Pulitzer website . By Dimiter Kenarov …
… science? At one time most inhabitants of the pure science community would have doubted this. But in recent years, more … Effect—holes in the ozone layer due to synthetic freon or CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons). Anybody can scour the pages and … functionally. Each lives by the other. Without subsidies from business, technology would starve to death, and in …
Essays
… grows wherever the land is and the water is, This is the common air that bathes the globe. This is Whitman in his … Lyrica , Allen Grossman has argued that the short line points toward the absence of what is excluded from it; it … sin which cannot be named among Christians) limited the audience for the review severely. What does it mean, to be …