RIP John Christopher (Samuel Youd), author of the Tripod books
Shadow and Smoke by Charles Wright
Live your life as though you were already dead
American writers alive today are expected to work as if Gertrude Stein never existed. Gertrude Stein, in her time, had that same problem.
How to Officially Forget
Look: The same junk from Nanchang has washed up here in Wal-Mart. It’s the end of 2011, and we are wondering what to make of a bunch of people who decided occupy a space. Is it meaningful, important, ridiculous, futile, or some combination of these?
‘Rasputin Was My Neighbor’ And Other True Tales Of Time Travel
There are people who live long enough to create a link — a one generation link — to figures from what feels like a distant past, and their presence among us shrinks history. When “Long Ago” suddenly becomes “So I said to him…” long ago jumps closer.
The Great Illusion of Gettysburg
Hundreds of black veterans made the journey to Gettysburg to mark the 50th anniversary. They greeted the reenacted rebel yells with cold silence. And, like many of their white comrades in the Grand Army of the Republic, they distinguished between forgiving and forgetting.
The Storytellers of Empire
I don’t mean Americans looked at America uncritically. I mean they looked at it merely in domestic terms.
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