Corfield, Penelope J
“If Miss Creston’s parents had possessed as much common-sense as the ordinary farm labourer’s wife,” one of the book’s reviewers wrote, “she would have been a far happier child, but might never have grown into so acute a writer.”“Their cruelty was the more intolerable,” he co...
Since I had nothing to tell the truth about though, I had nothing to say, and to many people, that made me a liar. Then, I read about George Washington chopping down his father’s prize cherry tree and readily admitting it when his father questioned him about it: “Father, I cannot ...
Since I had nothing to tell the truth about though, I had nothing to say, and to many people, that made me a liar. Then, I read about George Washington chopping down his father’s prize cherry tree and readily admitting it when his father questioned him about it: “Father, I cannot ...
One such pursuit was scrimshandering, the craft of using a jack-knife or needle to engrave designs into bone and ivory obtained from whale teeth and walrus tusks.A work in scrimshaw could be decorated with a variety of subjects including whaling s...
When some hawks within the Trump government talk about China-US competition, what they really want are confrontation and conflict. Many working-level dialogue mechanisms established during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations are no longer in operation. Now Washington resorts to trade, technol...
In “The Origin of Others,” Morrison writes, “What is denied in the other is personhood, the specific individuality we insist upon ourselves.” She adds, “What more, really, do you know about these characters when you know their race? Anything?” ...
Speaking of legal mayhem, here’s a story out of Washington state on one brewery’s fight against the local municipality care of WBB: Although Dominique Torgerson just wants to operate a brewery, she is now well-versed in this kind of legal battle and knows way more about these issues tha...
Though Fearing gives us a salad full of bits of their stories, his story isn’t really about any of them. It’s about Hudson General Hospital as a artefact of modern society. Again, to use a film analogy, we could consider The Hospital for the Best Editing award, but none of its ...