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- Vol. 82 Nbr. 4, October 2006
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- Vol. 82 Nbr. 1, January 2006
Death of a Worthless Man: An Essay
Simic critiques Slobodan Milosevic's dictatorship and his followers who supported him until his death. He says Milosevic's stubbornness and stupidity endeared him to his followers.
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Kubota to Miguel Hernández in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942
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Beneath Us, the Ground Still Moves
Garcia examines the impact of the 7.6-magnitude earthquake, which struck Pakistan and Kashmir on Oct 8, 2005, to the displaced Pakistani people. In February, when he is finally convinced to prepare a trip to Islamabad, the Pakistani government announced that all of the 170 earthquake-relief camps sheltering some 200,000 people would be closed on Mar 31. The government and aid officials declared that emergency assistance was finished--it was time for displaced families to rebuild their village...
Some Stories Have to Be Told by Me
Sometime in the late 1970s, Alice Munro made a policy of refusing prizes that did not specifically honor the quality of her fiction. When the Canadian government offered her one of its highest honors in 1983--an appointment as an Officer of the Order of Canada, which would have entitled her to a pretty, gold-edged medal with the motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam ("They desire a better country") emblazoned around a gold maple leaf--Munro politely declined, because only awards that had been e...
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Clarke describes some reports about the fall of fiction. She argues that fiction--through its uncertainty and curiosity, its sense of invention and mystery--is the most powerful reaction to tragedy, the most enduring document of the way people think they are going to respond to tragedy and how to actually respond.
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Skloot reviews The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, All Will Be Well by John McGahern and Let Me Finish by Roger Angell.
Gallagher reviews To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery edited by Kurt H. Hackemer.
Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients: Atlanta to Opelika
Gallagher reviews Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients: Atlanta to Opelika by Jack D. Welsh.
Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History
Tanner reviews Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History by Frederick H. Smith.
The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
Tanner reviews The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White's Southerners Transformed America by James N. Gregory.
Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
Yenigun reviews Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction by Joshua Kates.
Kevorkian reviews In the Middle Distance by Linda Gregg.
Casteen reviews Green Stars by Charlotte Hilary Matthews.
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness
Brown reviews Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness by Erik Reece.
Editor's Desk
Recent Books
Euphorias of Perrier: The Case Against Robert D. Kaplan
Bissell reviews Robert D. Kaplan's books, including Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Balkan Ghosts, and Imperial Grunts.
Book Notes
On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era
Yenigun reviews On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone.
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
Callahan reviews Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by R. J. B. Bosworth.
Yeats and the Logic of Formalism
Johnson reviews Yeats and the Logic of Formalism by Vereen M. Bell.
Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction
Miner reviews Bleak House: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction by Lisa Surridge.
Henderson reviews Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henriquez.
Carr reviews Hoodlum Birds by Eugene Gloria.