In the following essay, Bassett examines the role of A Fable in Faulkner's canon.
A Fable is a troublesome work. Written over a ten-year period, it is essential to understanding Faulkner...
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Flashes of intense envy are inevitable when you’re reading about the personal palaces and larger-than-life inhabitants of 740 Park Avenue. The walls of your cramped walk-up close in on you in...
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Over on his blog, Micah Sifry, a former Nation editor who thinks a lot about technology in politics and who worked on Andrew Rasiej's campaign for public advocate, has a long post-mortem of that ca...
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THE PESTHOUSEBy Jim CraceNan A. Talese/Doubleday, 255 pages, $24.95
Bad timing: The Pesthouse, Jim Craceâs new novel, set in an America devastated by an unspecified apocalypse, wil...
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Greg Olsen grew up with football. His dad was a high school coach and would take him and his brother, Christian, around to different camps. That's where he got an early glimpse at how various progr...
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Greg Olsen grew up with football. His dad was a high school coach and would take him and his brother, Christian, around to different camps. That's where he got an early glimpse at how various progr...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Paramount Pictures is to make a thriller
named Dubai, based in the Arabian peninsula country and with a plot
about a highly coordinated international att...
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The conventional narrative of what may become Joe Lieberman’s final campaign for public office—parroted faithfully by pundits and politicians who admire the Connecticut Senator—is...
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The conventional narrative of what may become Joe Lieberman’s final campaign for public office—parroted faithfully by pundits and politicians who admire the Connecticut Senator—is...
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President Bush heaved crates of lettuce onto a loading dock Monday, a vivid demonstration of the benefits of a free trade deal he had trouble pushing through Congress."Free trade is important to a ...
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Paulo Coelho hates seeing books neglected, gathering dust on his shelves. And so he leaves most of what he reads in parks, bus stations, his local Japanese restaurant, for random readers to find."O...
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