Her father sometimes tried to be kind, but recollections of these few moments are among the most painful parts of this book -- so little so seldom... read more
This generosity carries us along even when the author is sending a stream of coded postmodernist messages to a long list of other writers he admires... read more
"Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" is the first story in Alice Munro's latest collection of short stories under the same title. To this unusual list of "ships", one would have to add worship, for the reader comes to and away from Munro's fiction with adulation... read more
At first glance, J. Sutter seems an unlikely candidate for identification with the steel-driving man. Like John Henry, J. is black -- he comes from an upwardly striving Manhattan family... read more
The new outlook that replaced them was pragmatism, a concept first formed by Peirce in 1872 and turned into an articulated system of thought by James in 1898... read more
The voice, untutored, ungrammatical and often comically colloquial, becomes intoxicating, poetic and sinuous enough to reflect the highly idiosyncratic conversations of others without ever losing its own character... read more
