Editor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the third of . . .
Read MoreEditor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the second of . . .
Read MoreEditor’s Note. In press coverage of the Snowden affair, there often seems to be little sense of what is really at stake. We asked Adam Sitze, from Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, to shine a bit more light on the subject. What follows here is the first of . . .
Read MoreMy books mean as much to me for what they are, for their narrative, as those personal scenes and circumstances that they have the power to evoke. Often, the memory of writing the book overshadows the work itself. This is not an aspect of writing that has been explored or analyzed, and . . .
Read MoreI imagine you’ve all heard this title before. Also that the NPR series going by this name has, on occasion, made you roll your eyes, and—maybe once or twice—stop and take notice. Moreover, my guess is that if you write at all, and especially if you have on occasion used the verb “to write” . . .
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Editor’s Note. When we first read “Night Man,” Bill Pitts‘s contribution to our current issue, we figured the backstory might be as good as the story. So we asked him to tell you about it. Crisp County’s prison closed in 1975, a few years after I was born, but I have been hearing about . . .
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My first instinct was simply to shrug. Don’t respond, I thought. It just encourages them. But then the incoherence, the inaccuracy, the sheer ignorance of the thing became burrs under the saddle and just couldn’t be ignored. It sometimes seems that early in each decade someone grabs a bigger-than-usual megaphone and climbs . . .
Read MoreLa battaglia d’ Istanbul in difesa di seicento alberi,mille arresti, senza numero i feriti, quattro accecati per sempre,4 morti.La battaglia d’ Istanbulè per gli innamorati a passeggio sui viali,per i pensionati, per i cani,per le radici, la linfa, i nidi sui rami,per l’ ombra d’ estate e le tovaglie stesecoi cestini e . . .
Read MoreWASHINGTON DC, 6/2/2013 – It is a high honor and privilege to be asked to participate in this tribute to the great writer, and dearly beloved and admired friend, Chinua Achebe. I want to thank the entire Achebe family and the distinguished guests present, mistress of ceremonies Dr Johnnetta Cole, and my . . .
Read MoreThe first installment of this blog series was published on February 20. About a third of the way through the novel, after long anticipation, the reader at last finds herself face to face with Captain Ahab—and via Ahab, introduced indirectly to that other looming presence that awaits us somewhere on the horizon, the Whale . . .
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