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Notes to Self
… way of understanding the world,” she says. “It’s an all-encompassing experience. I learned things about the humanities … there. I learned how to be a person of the world when I studied engraving.” In 2013, nearly burned out, Malhotra … archive, this was a way of building that archive. The website allows people to write stories about ancient objects …
Essays
… Southern advancement through the act of grappling with the complexities of Southern heritage. In April 1925, sixty … A simple keyword search of “Civil War” on the magazine’s website yields hundreds of archived articles and creative … he saw as a backwards and intellectually barren region. He points to some fifty-odd years beginning around the outbreak …
… coasters, blowing smoke, talking and listening. . .equals. Is there anything lovelier than an amber ale in bar … off during my final two seasons. After trouncing the competition at the state championship as a freshman and … golf. I had every assurance I needed: I was a winner. Coming down our street in the rain, you’d pass a dozen …
… Yvor Winters at Stanford When I first met Yvor Winters 26 years ago, on my arrival as a new instructor in the … I was surprised to find him a rotund figure with a florid complexion. One could tell even before hearing him speak … Stanford, Winters had never read his poems to a Stanford audience, although the English Department and the University …
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… close friend and a once-famed poet, who had died of a heart attack, paranoid and alone just two years …
Criticism
… never have imagined that such a mode of viewing would be come a quaint anachronism.) Thoughts of political havoc were … on Lee Harvey Oswald. Phillip Kerr’s standalone The Shot also takes us to Dallas on November 22, 1963. Though not a … a review of Oswald’s youth and chaotic life (his father died before he was born, and he had moved twenty times by …