The complete online text of Escape, and Other Essays by A. C. Benson.

Arthur Christopher Benson was one of the most prolific and popular essayists of the Edwardian period. Son of an archbishop of Canterbury, editor of the selected letters of Queen Victoria, and author of "Land of Hope and Glory," he was an unofficial poet...

Hoops: Escape or Illusion? A Review Essay John Edgar Wideman, in his work Hoop Roots, articulates the need he had for basketball in the poverty-stricken neighborhood where he grew up when he tells the reader that: Growing up, I needed basketball because...

BANGOR - Ursula Blake was awakened early Wednesday morning by the fire alarm and when she opened the front door she saw her porch was engulfed in flames. Blake, 72, dressed only in pajamas, closed the door and went to the bathroom to...