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At Schoolsnet, parents can access statistics on British schools, such as average test scores, while students can find anything from review notes on Ted Hughes' poetry to results of school rugby matches. And teachers can vent; one message board is titled, "Let's be honest - kids are awful!"
Remember Me to Harlem:The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964.
In an early letter to Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten comments that "there are so many things that one can't talk about in a letter." This passing remark stands as a challenge to the reader of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten...
In her introduction to the chronologically-arranged letters, Bernard sets forth a number of tacit lines of argument for which the letters serve as narrative evidence. One such argument consists of a demand for a reevaluation of Van Vechten's place within American literary history. Van Vechten, whose literary reputation...
The complex relationship between these two men that emerges from the letters raises more questions that it answers. It does not, however, permit a thoughtless dismissal of Van Vechten into the historical periphery. Instead we see a man dedicated to and intensely interested in the promotion of black art and...