a recent article, someone defined the deplorable state of publishing (and the Republic) by a single fact: ... estimate of Rukeyser's contributions is long overdue. Out of Silence is a necessary start ... seem irrelevant. What Saves Us moves right along from that achievement. Bruce Weigl has become one of ...

Page 80 from Issue 112 on the radio, Nelson Mandela is president! Decalogues of light on Lafayette ... me that story again: ten years of tenacity, of blind faith in the tenets of union; more often ... attending to the manifest than the latent; more often not asking the right questions, as our main form of ...

Page 80 from Issue 87 Christmas came and went. I spent all my money on an engraved cigarette ... corner of my dresser drawer next to the stack of holy cards. On New Year's, Dad resolved to junk ... the Dodge, Grandma pledged to break the one million mark, Mom said nothing. Then the real snow started ...

Page 66 from Issue 80 "I Heard a Fly Buzz... " for Bruce and LitJija Renner ... Or because I'd spent a lifetime trying to be good. I thought I heard a tune from a calliope, ... and some already dead, Inhabiting a long, generic memory only I could read. Life ends on a particular ...