Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identified by critics--not by the so-called minimalists them...
Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than two decades. Beattie's fiction explores the emotional...
John Yemma is the Globe's assistant to the editor for special projects. It was just another day in paradise. Columbus and his men were lolling in the Bahamas. The natives were swimming back and forth to the ships, offering the sailors parrots, souvenir spears,...
Regarding Rep. Don Young's Sept. 5 letter "Amending the Mining Law" claiming that the Republican Congress had tried to reform the ancient Mining Law of 1872, the "reform" this Congress passed a few months ago was properly vetoed by President Clinton because it was...
