Essays
epub |eng | | Author:Darryl Pinckney
AUSTERE AND LONELY OFFICES In Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again,” a poem published in 1936, a narrator speaks for those who struggle—the poor white, the Negro bearing slavery’s ...
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Discrimination & Racism
November 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-22 | Author:Russell, David;
From Essay to Novel It is the task of this book to keep the essay in mind; but by way of conclusion, I will take a closer look at Eliot’s ...
( Category:
European
September 23,2019 )
epub | | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
Chapter III above.] [Note 34: _Robert Hunter, Sheriff of Dumbarton_. Hunter recognised the genius in Stevenson long before the latter became known to the world, and gave him much friendly ...
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Essays
August 7,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Max Beerbohm [Beerbohm, Max]
DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
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European
June 22,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-02-22 | Author:DuBois, Thomas [DuBois, Thomas]
A Struggle of Dynasties Eric Jedvardsson’s death occurred in a very unstable period for the Swedish monarchy. The two dynasties that had apparently ruled Sweden at least since the introduction ...
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Medieval
June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:Oliver Sacks
* * * — I FIRST MET Mr. K. about six months after this, in March 2002. He was a tall, amiable man, well dressed, affable, and voluble. He presented ...
( Category:
Neurology
April 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Richard Russo
* * * — That art should be so elusive is deeply mysterious. In many respects it seems so straightforward. What art demands of us has remained constant down through ...
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Essays
May 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Michelle Tea
“Green mohawk, leather jacket, combat boots, spikes, piercings, rings, covered in tattoos, tiny, loud, in your face, laughing, crying, yelling, stoic, tough, pretty, kind, selfless, selfish, self-conscious, insecure, obsessed, girl ...
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Essays
May 8,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Chee
Not for the novelist. Not for the reader. But for something else the novelist brings in from the back of the tent like a lion on a chain. Do not ...
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Essays
April 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Baker, Houston A.; Simmons, K. Merinda;
NOTES 1. Toni Morrison was the one who infamously dubbed Bill Clinton “America’s first black president,” in a 1998 piece she wrote for the New Yorker. For further discussion, see ...
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Discrimination & Racism
April 13,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Ryan Van Meter
“Cold cuts will take the paint off a car, if the sun is hot enough.” I’ve heard this somewhere, and just knowing it makes me sound as if I am ...
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Essays
April 5,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:Peggy Shinner [Shinner, Peggy]
Berenice’s Hair The Tantrics said the forces of creation and destruction lay in the binding and unbinding of a woman’s hair. The Syrians said a woman who combed her hair ...
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United States
April 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Vendler
Ammons plays on the etymology: “succinct” poetry is “cinctured”: “discinct” poetry is unbelted, unbuttoned, the “bosh and flapdoodle” of the human lexicon. Ammons unveils—in a sad and tender recollection of ...
( Category:
Poetry
March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Buckley
* * * I. The phrase was actually coined by Alexander Pope. Criticism * * * People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing ...
( Category:
Essays
January 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-07 | Author:Audre Lorde
October 24, 1985 EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the invasion of Grenada. The smallest nation in the western hemisphere occupied by the largest. I spoke about ...
( Category:
Breast Cancer
January 7,2018 )
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