Regional & Cultural
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Tsvetaeva, Marina; Livingstone, Angela; Livingstone, Angela [Marina Tsvetaeva]

The command of the multitudes to Mayakovsky: ‘Say us’; the command of the multitudes to Rilke: ‘Tell us’. Both commands were fulfilled. Nobody will call Mayakovsky a teacher of life, ...
( Category: Russian April 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Marina Tsvetaeva [Tsvetaeva, Marina]

October 1919 S.E. Want to know how my days proceed here in the land where insults reign? I use my hands to guide a saw, meanwhile my heart utters a ...
( Category: Surrealism April 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-26 | Author:Chinitz, David E.; McDonald, Gail; & Gail McDonald

The poem's speaker joins Blessingbourne in a quest for meaning beyond ostensible transparencies (of windows, of words), locating in the ephemeral “weather,” which gives incidental shape or color to a ...
( Category: United States April 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Barlow, Richard;

“THE PICKTS ARE HACKING THE SAXUMS” At bedtime the twins “jerry” (FW, 565.10) and “keve” (565.15), versions of Shem and Shaun, respectively, are slightly traumatized by the nocturnal sight of ...
( Category: Modern April 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

Between the night and the morning of April 3–4, in 1967, a Marine, Michael E. Kroll, was murdered on West 3rd Street, in Greenwich Village. He was killed, according to ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helena Kelly

CHAPTER 5 ‘The Chain and the Cross’ Mansfield Park London, 1813.a The little girls, who had hoped for an evening at one of the theatres, are indulging in a fit ...
( Category: European March 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Paul Auster [Auster, Paul]

4.4 In his three years as a high school student in the New Jersey suburbs, the sixteen-, seventeen-, and eighteen-year-old Ferguson started twenty-seven short stories, finished nineteen of them, and ...
( Category: United States March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Wallace, David Foster [Wallace, David Foster]

14) What’s the one question you always wish interviews would ask? There really aren’t any. The problem with interviews (including even very considerate ones where you let me write answers ...
( Category: United States March 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-12 | Author:Stephen J. Burn [Burn, Stephen J.]

David Foster Wallace: In the Company of Creeps Lorin Stein/1999 From Publishers Weekly, 3 May 1999. © 1999 by PWxyz. Reprinted by permission. “It wasn’t till I saw the galleys ...
( Category: United States March 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Ryan, Judith;

Controlling Knowledge: Umberto Eco Not all texts that reflect on social control through institutions of incarceration necessarily mention Foucault by name. Nonetheless, sometimes the best place to hide something is ...
( Category: European March 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Sherill Tippins [Tippins, Sherill]

8 Naked Lunch Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine. —PATTI SMITH, “Oath” TO THE BELEAGUERED COUPLE who unlocked its door, the tiny chamber assigned to them wasn’t just ...
( Category: Houses & Hotels March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

† “Our clients” [German] THE STATIONMASTER “Collegiate administrator, Postal dictator”. —KING VYAZEMSKY Who has never cursed stationmasters? Who has never argued with them? Who, in a moment of anger, has ...
( Category: Russian March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-01 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

37 But what of our Eugene this while? Have patience, friends, I beg you, pray; I’ll tell it all in detailed style And show you how he spent each day. ...
( Category: European March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

4 The difference between human vision and the image perceived by the faceted eye of an insect may be compared with the difference between a half-tone block made with the ...
( Category: Russian March 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

X Two days later she sent me to Dubetchnya and I was unutterably delighted to go. As I walked towards the station and afterwards, as I was sitting in the ...
( Category: Russian February 24,2017 )