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Milton makes even smart people feel stupid. Not by accident, either. He is probably the most unrelentingly aggressive poet in English. When Samson says, "My heels are fettered, but my fist is free," he displays the best and worst of Milton. The best is Milton's unsurpassed technical command of...
For most of China's long history, earthquakes and other calamities have been viewed as both portents of change and a test of the ruling government's "mandate of heaven." Many Chinese point out that Mao Zedong died only months after the Tangshan disaster. The Wenchuan quake is being discussed...
? Acclaimed gospel singer Dottie Rambo was one of her genre's most prolific songwriters, composing more than 2,500 works. She performed her songs across the country, but much of what she wrote was recorded by other musicians--among them, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Whitney Houston. One of...
Dates change every year; there will never be another Saturday, September 23, or at least not for several years. When the anniversary of my mother’s accident comes each year, it is hard for me to remember things. For me, it was most importantly a day, not a...
Lahiri's rise is part of a changing of the guard in American fiction, from a generation in which white American-born men still play a primary role (Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Michael Chabon) to one in which the principal voices weren't born here, like Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat...