North and South may refer to the following: North and South an album by Gerry Rafferty. North and South (trilogy), a series of novels by John Jakes North and South (novel), the first novel in the series North and South (TV miniseries), a miniseries...
THE latest figures on the North-South divide confirm a trend long evident to those living on both sides of the split. London is becoming younger, more prosperous and better educated, while the North and Wales decline. What is more surprising is the extent of...
Few Americans have visited North Korea not because of restrictions by the U.S. government but because North Korea does not usually permit them in. However, North Korea is issuing visas for travel between Aug. 10-Oct. 10, and several tours are...
This ramshackle town of mud huts and dirt roads is swarming with returning African refugees, Arab militiamen and rival troops from north and south Sudan — all eyeing each other in fear of a spark that could detonate the volatile mix.Nearby lies a prize that...
[The essay from which this excerpt is taken originally appeared in Sewanee Review, Summer 1947.] On the surface, [Elizabeth Bishop's poems in North & South] are observations—surpassingly accurate, witty and well-arranged, but nothing more. Sometimes she writes of a place where she has lived on the Atlantic Coast; at others, of a dream, a picture, or some fantastic object. One is reminded of Kafka and certain abstract paintings, and is left rather at sea about the actual subjects of the poe...
