Word: essays
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...opined Mr. Dooley--the fictional Irish politician created by turn of the century New York columnist Peter Finley Dunne--in an essay satirizing the High Court's use of complicated judicial philosophies to reach decisions in accord with the politicians who appointed them. To Dooley these philosophies were just rationalizations...
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...satiric essay called "Igor Stravinsky: The Selected Phone Calls," the humorist Ian Frazier pretends to rummage through old telephone bills for clues to the composer's life. For serious historians, the situation seems less funny. "I know more about the Kennedy assassination than anyone," says William Manchester, author of The Death of a President, "but I know more about the Dardanelles in 1915 than I do about the assassination. In 1915, people put everything on paper. Now, it's all done over the telephone." Notes Historian Barbara Tuchman: "Phone bills won't tell you much, and as a result, contemporary...
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...South America and the U.S. The results were In Patagonia (1977) and The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980), two remarkable books that demonstrated enviable gifts for observation, description and narrative invention. The Songlines brings these qualities to high relief, combining the conventions of travel writing, the patterns of the philosophical essay and the strategies of fiction. The work is obviously based on fact and personal experience, although Chatwin declares that much of it is literary concoction. In short, The Songlines is a book whose resistance to definition places it, by default, into the increasingly liberal category of the novel...