Word: encounterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Part 4 (it's called "The Part About the Crimes," as if it were a Friends episode) consists of a ruthlessly precise forensic catalog of those killings, complete with torn nylons and vaginal swabs, along with the stories of the victims and the investigating detectives. It is a police procedural...
We will not meet our cozy critical clique again. From here 2666 tacks abruptly sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa, and who may be slowly going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to...
2666 is not a novel that any responsible critic could describe with words like brisk or taut. (Not like all those other brisk, taut 898-page novels.) That's not Bolaño's method. He's addicted to unsolved mysteries and seemingly extraneous details that actually do turn out...
Judson H. Miner, a Chicago civil rights lawyer who hired Obama out of law school, recalled his first encounter with the future senator.
“I suffered through rent control,” said Irving, who has lived in Cambridge since 1982. Irving describes his experience going before the city to raise rent on property that he owned as an encounter with a “mini-dictatorship in action.?...