By David Remnick The New Yorker, June 14 , 1999P. 94 THE BACK PAGE essay about Clinton's foreign policy regarding Yugoslavia..
The New Yorker, June 14 , 1999P. 94 THE BACK PAGE essay about Clinton's foreign policy regarding Yugoslavia..
The reviewer is given a book on a subject — Baudelaire, Tennyson — by the editor, and gives back an essay not just, in the time-honored manner, on what the author should have thought about the subject, had he been as wise as the reviewer, but on what the subject should have thought about his own experience, had he understood it as well as the poet does.
The reviewer is given a book on a subject Baudelaire, Tennyson by the editor, and gives back an essay not just, in the time-honored manner, on what the author should have thought about the subject, had he been as wise as the reviewer, but on what the subject should have thought about his own experience, had he understood it as well as the poet does.
Sure, your professors are boring and disorganized, and you still haven't gotten back the essay that you handed in three weeks ago, and these test questions have nothing to do with the lectures, and why are there twelve books assigned on the syllabus when we're not even using half of them?
In a back-page essay this Sunday, I explore what I call literary dealbreakers.
In his back-page essay about George Steiner ("Our Steiner Problem — and Mine," March 15), Lee Siegel calls The New Yorker "middlebrow" and The Times Literary Supplement "bourgeois".
This topic is also the subject of a back-page essay in this week's Book Review by Robert Lipsyte, the author, most recently, of a memoir, "An Accidental Sportswriter," and an award-winning author of young adult novels.
Memory and history meet as well in our back-page essay, a "Letter From Vietnam" that examines how Vietnamese read our books about the war and their own, further evidence of the ways in which successive generations in these two distant lands remain inescapably bound.
Some years ago, I read an eye-opening back-page essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
