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… man on his early morning walk. Kiyoshi woke to the sudden commotion of wails and pounding feet, the heavy clang of … the corner Daily Mart. They did not talk during those meals: they did not discuss Kiyoshi’s mother’s depression, nor … so he chose to remain single, keeping busy with his studies and with track practice instead. His resoluteness had …
… Interpretation. By Samuel Klagg Bemis. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $4.50. U. S. Foreign Policy. Shield of the … In the World War of 1917, the list of Latin-American neutrals was a truly impressive one; it included our neighbor, … is Anglo-American understanding. Self-interest clearly points to the close association of the two great …
Reporting
… Formula By Ruminatrix / Flickr / Creative Commons I have no beef with sensationalism in my … pushed my buttons. (Was it the one urging us married ladies to have sex when we don’t want to? Or her attack on … two different nonfiction pieces in which the writer reveals—eventually—that what we’ve just read was fiction. So we …
… Unwin. $24.50. This is an exciting time in 18th-century studies, and especially for the study of Alexander Pope. The … about him, remains deeply mysterious. Our difficulties are compounded by the fact that most of what we know about Pope … for any such vision has been missing. Irvin Ehrenpreis points the way to such an understanding in a brilliant …
Essays
… Alice Munro has always been a writer’s writer, and she has also become, for a short story writer, highly popular, simply for … She has a novel’s-worth of incident and character change compressed into a fairly short story. But her stories have …
… or King Alexander, did he christen him with a name so comical and so revealing?” The reader will be aware of a … loses teeth as his molested countrymen lose tempers. The ladies he meets are foul-breathed wenches; the lord of the … left alone by the unreasons of chivalry. . .” Carrasco reveals that his deep instinct against Don Quixote is buttressed …