Fiction
… sticker and told to wait. The attendants were on their computers. “The plane is on the ground, though. They’re … his back straight, his shoulders broad, walking like a soldier. No, not a soldier. That was the old language. I took … military secrets family peace soldiers America 126-134 By David Braga Illustration by Keith Negley …
… Tree. By Rosalind Murray. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. The Old Countess. By Anne Douglas Sedgwick. … their discredit. The sum of the favorites of many individuals makes the honor roll of the new fiction, a thing made up … novels. But there is not much point. Psychological studies of children and grown-ups have been done before. May …
… Mother Russia. By Maurice Hindus. Doubleday, Doran and Company. $3.50. There is one kind of book that makes a commentator feel superfluous and ridiculous. It is not a … non-combatants,” Is there any wonder about that? It adds, also, to a Russian’s patriotism to know that in his new …
Memoir
… weight of heavy china plates and bowls. My grandmother, who died before I was born, had worked there when she was young. … house with Yogi, an eighty-pound Chow Chow, and we had a comfortable routine: I taught in the mornings, then Yogi and … whose enclosure was some yards away from the rest of animals appeared cheered when he saw us. People we passed on the …
Memoir
… After church that Sunday, on the way to the Mumfords, I complained to Grandmama that my slacks were so tight I had … or “po’” to talk about anything other than people’s bodies. Without knocking, the po’ white boy opened the door of … black women in the church made up the majority of the audience. But their voices and words were only heard during …
… counsel there, and waited as I was told. The liquid intervals from Troy to Ithaca made me ten years a man, twice … you drown in it. A bath’s as good a place as anywhere to die. My father singing his way across the sea, about … there: Eden’s echo or white flag. I didn’t want him to come home. 134-135 By Reginald Shepherd …