… and not a sound but the jolt of an old tram over the worn points or the drip on the old tin shed in the backyard? I am … than the man in the moon. Name of Delurey. Molly Delurey. Died up in the Fever Hospital. The best I ever heard. God … now of that name. We had a little apple-woman used to come here . , . Ah, no! She was a Minny Delaney. And how did …
… Our Passage to Asia Those who compound truth in neat paradoxical pellets claim that there … to end, causes more vital interest along Alaska’s 26,000 miles of sea-coast just now than do all the … waters; but not before he had sighted, named and touched points upon the mainland of Alaska, while those of his crew …
Fiction
… She was twenty-four and had left Germany after her mother died. Her mother had been in Kabul, serving as an engineer … his motorbike every morning as they had done before. She accompanied him on his errands and they went to the beach for … He didn’t push. It reminded her of the way some animals made their presence known, once, and then went to their …
… Proposals and Advice Eric, our grandchild, our number one and … a son to my wife Milly and me, has called to say he will come to visit next weekend. He’ll want advice, some life … swimming, walking, bowling, doing what we can to keep our bodies from falling apart, but that too is beyond our control. …
… by Jefferson himself—for his favorite sister, Jane, who died in 1765: Oh! Joanna puellarum optima! Oh! aevi viventis … Sit tibi terra laevis! Long, longeque valete. Accompanying the poem are Jefferson’s detailed plans for a … Staunton with the body of our dear little Eleanor.” [July 26, 1795; reference is to his granddaughter, the third child …
Criticism
… of devastation. Within months came records, poems, novels, comics, essays, academic and political studies, films, TV shows, exposés, paintings, blogs. Now there … only what context immediately informs his scenes. He also resists the standard encomia to pat Big Easyisms— …