Sons and Fathers
Miller is a classicist; he loves the melodrama of the comics form.
Miller is a classicist; he loves the melodrama of the comics form.
If you spot in the financial crisis something of the epic, you are not mistaken.
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
As it ticks away, "The Clock" taps into the enormous storehouse of images bouncing around in our heads.
Hagedorn's lean, quick chapters and impressionistic scenes have the effect of sound bytes, and perfectly complement the tone of her world.
aviator’s goggles, Victorian waistcoats, top hats, bustle skirts, leather corsets, bizarre, mechanical accessories
An excerpt from "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."
But objectivity may be as elusive as cancer's cure.
You look up again, and each small step forward unveils a newly unfamiliar scene.
We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition.
"Must You Go?" is both a wife’s reflection and a historian’s.
Bush ended his term in office with the lowest approval rating since they started keeping approval ratings.
I’m not equating him with Hitler, mind you, or Joe Smith or Jim Jones. I’m just trying to understand my own compulsion.
Poets who don’t want their unpublished poems to see the light of day should — as Auden did -- take to burning them.
Negro League Baseball may be tough going for the average reader, yet its rewards are bountiful.
Mirkovic fixates upon two types of men, not always separate: writers and war criminals.