Housman. All these authors probably date me (my grandchildren have probably never read them) but their works are timeless and remain an inspiration. Sometimes our own words disappoint us. Edith Wharton wrote: “I dream of an eagle, I give birth to a humming-bird.” So we try and try ...
Korean literature, the body of works written by Koreans, at first inClassical Chinese, later in varioustranscriptionsystems usingChinese characters, and finally inHangul(Korean:han’gŭl; Hankul in the Yale romanization), the national alphabet. ...
This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would be a very different story. Whole books full of notes, carefully copied records, firsthand descriptions, and the pictures—that’s the worst loss. We had some bird’...
My Education– Susan Choi Underworld– Don DeLillo Notes from Underground– Fyodor Dostoevsky The Last Samurai– Helen DeWitt Erasure– Percival Everett Bad Behavior;Because They Wanted To;Don’t Cry– Mary Gaitskill A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me;Jernigan– David Gates Airships– Barry Hannah ...
A New York Times review of the book compares the story to one that Edith Wharton might have written about exclusive Christian New York in another century. The story starts at Cornell University with an accident that will mark Salo Oppenheimer forever. He graduates from college, enters the ...
His dry, ironic works of fiction continued the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Gore Vidal said, "Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs... Not since Dreiser...
How tearful the words he uses in a letter written to Atticus, when Pompey the elder had been conquered, and the son was still trying to restore his shattered arms in Spain! “Do you ask,” he said, “what I am doing here? I am lingering in my Tusculan villa half a prisoner.” He...