Books: Growing Old ResignedlyThe article reviews the book "The Lay of the Land," by Richard Ford.Richard Lacayotime
Our Aging Society: Paradox and Promise, editd by Alan Pifer and Lydia Bronte, New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1986, viii + 438 pages, $22.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.Kenneth E. BouldingEconomicsChange: The Magazine of Higher Learning...
He had tubes everywhere, he was covered in bruises but he looked better than he had when I was doing CPR on him. That was the worst day and night I have ever lived through. Thank goodness for my neighbour who so kindly came and sat with me until the early hours once I was home ...
He moved then, swiftly, gracefully, so fast that she couldn’t avoid him. “You forgot to kiss me good-bye,” he said, and pulled her into his arms, his mouth coming down on hers before she had a chance to duck.One of his strong hands held the nape of her neck in a viselike ...
it’s actually very much like you’re picturing; the old beat poets of the 60s and 70s in Soho and San Francisco. This art has just carried on. Artists who are not recognized on a large scale can still go up there and do their thing. And it’s really supportive. Even the on-line...
Story is central to Romanowski’s memoir, one that delves deep into her Italian roots, how they’ve intersected and fused with American life, and the indelible impact family has had on her own life—and she on theirs. Through prose and poetry, the author meticulously and gracefully guides...
on internet platforms especially where there is little to no regulation. Places like 4chan and 8chan gave what became known as the alt-right, a home to gather together, multiply, and go unchecked. A new white supremacism grew on the internet to challenge the old traditional, racist power ...
future world that bears a distinct resemblance to our own, beginning with the violence of collapse, loosely narrating the escape of the album’s unnamed protagonists on a pedal-boat swan, as they trade doom for danger on their way to a future home built from the detritus of the old world...
About A Son by David Whitehouse recounts the aftermath of the murder of 20-year-old Morgan Hehir who was stabbed to death while he was on a night out in Nuneaton in Warwickshire on 31 October 2015. It’s a true crime book, but not written in the way that you might typically expect...
about having an organically growing collection of books in the home. If you want to get deep, perhaps it’s a nice physical representation of the evolution and changes in your mind while you’re reading. (Maybe this is why my wife refuses to allow my Far Side collections on her shelf.)...