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But a lot of Americans have been left out. Some who tried to start out in the '70s began to suspect that they were operating under some vast cultural misunderstanding. In a way, they were. Owning a house-a home, "the most lyrical of American symbols," Max Lerner once...
The payoff from those stunning interest rates, though, is often only an inflationary illusion. Over the past two centuries, the real interest rate in the U.S. has been fairly consistent at about 3%. Anything more than that has just offset the current level of inflation. A return of 17% from...
To be unmistakable, however, is often to be predictable. Barthelme seems to stage the same kind of illusion every time he writes. No, he does not write about Cortés and Montezuma in every story; in fact, he is not writing about them in the sketch quoted above. There...
Someone with Western sensibilities might think the gorge was carved out of the mountains by the river to cater to the needs of the men who traverse it. But to the generations of pilgrims who have travelled through, the gorge and the road are an illusion. Reality is the height...
"Do you have mountains like these in America? American writers--all they are concerned about is India's poverty. Why doesn't somebody write something about how glorious the Himalayas are and make us look a little bit better to the rest of the world?" To these college students from...