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
… Shaken Out of Time Black Bodies and the Movement in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time Midway … of a particular moment, because as well as our old musicals, we liked things like Ghostbusters and Dallas . We felt … much unending. Every people have their trauma. It’s not a competition of traumas. But they’re different in nature. And …
… a fragile hold to wood. A thorned vine of blackberry spirals into the trunk’s dark hollow to root. Under the arch of …
… The Rise and Fall of Nations, Kennedy, a Yale historian, points to three present-day social and economic revolutions … work patterns with automated systems of production and communication. In the same way that industrial change … Education, the role of women, and leadership are the ingredients of reform. In part, we require the retraining of …