Word: talese
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The impulse to hear stories and tell them will always be with us. It's as prehistoric as that ape-man. Life, after all, is a story. It provides us with an instinctive appetite for all the other stories we come upon or create, from the fairy tales at the...
What still sets Love and Rockets apart from other books on the comics racks is how the brothers, who grew up in the ethnically mixed strawberry-farming community of Oxnard, Calif., infuse their tales with multicultural images and references. "We were basing all our stuff on our own lives," says...
Talk to a resident living downwind of a North Carolina hog factory and you're likely to hear tales of odors that can peel paint. In the Tar Heel state, the swine industry famously generates mountains of waste - some 19 million tons a year - and critics have long charged that...
Like a lot of children's literature, these stories - sometimes spanning two issues - feature beloved objects that have come to life. The titular sock-monkey, named Uncle Gabby, and Mr. Crow, a cloth crow with button eyes, get into adventures by innocently imitating the adult world. The stories read like...
TALES OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN WEST Gabriel's Story