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11 hours ago · 4. The Narratives. Frost’s poetry is typically written in simple, everyday language and in traditional forms like the villanelle and the sonnet. These popular forms allowed Frost to concisely capture his complex ideas about life in rural New England. One of the hallmarks of Frost’s poetry is the use of skillful wordplay.
11 hours ago · A nation under threat, a man incapable of action. I live in a New York doorman building where, I hear, a doorman has been asked by a resident to change the battery in her cell phone and by another resident to unscrew a peanut butter jar lid; both women were college graduates, both married, the first to an author, the second to a man who lectures on leadership to business groups.
11 hours ago · [Note to editor: I did not mean for that to be a complete sentence. It is a stylistic choice. It is a stylistic choice. I’m now rereading Cormack McCarthy as part of a sick experiment, so with the way I sponge up stylistics, even weirder things are to come.
11 hours ago · This is from the ancient days, at The Valve (now defunct). It's an extended footnote to: Politics Beyond the Personal: Diversity, Identitari...
11 hours ago · “These books follow the war in all its uncertainties and accidents and contingencies. They let us live in the minds of people who didn’t yet know how it would all come out, an
11 hours ago · The images in this newsletter, taken from a report by Brazil’s National Institute of Colonisation and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) using satellite images from the Brazil M.A.I.S. Programme, Ministry of Justice and Public Safety, show some of the MST’s lands before and after the floods – lands now inundated with flood water that has washed ...
