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I SHOULDN'T BE WRITING TO SOMEONE I BARELY KNOW," RACHEL'S POSTCARD read, "when I'm this depressed + faithless. The smoke from my cigarette is even stinging my eyes." I'd met […]

Frank Sargeson and Dan Davin met in August 1948, when a friend of one, who was also an old army mate of the other, took the visiting expatriate to Esmonde [...]

The author recollects afternoons of poetry and fiction reading at the Ship Inn during the period 1977 to 2003. The Ship Inn used to be the meeting point for musicians, actors, writers, where once upon a time writers, wrote books, plays, poems, sitting at the tables, and thought it has become a young people's club now, artists still meet there.

Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January 2006 by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his [...]

A poetic account is presented of ethnographic fieldwork conducted on everyday interactions in Rizong, a Buddhist monastery in Ladakh, India.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He lives in the world, he cannot miss it. --Annie Dillard Four bedrooms ago I taped these sentences to the side of my [...]

The article describes author's search for the Desdunes ledgers containing poems of the 'Les Cenelles' poets that had a significant historical value.

"Tears from the Sea"est un texte signe Kawi une gitane de la mer de Burma dont la vie est insufflee de la beaute et de l'esprit de la mer. Ce [...]

LAST YEAR I served as a judge for the Independent / Arts Council of England Foreign Fiction Prize. Half the prize goes to the translator, so we were under some [...]

MY TITLE, 'Telling Tales Out of School,' is hard won. In coming up with it, what I had to resist was the tyranny of the colon--its insistence, as soon as [...]

Publishers often send their authors, particularly best-selling celebrity writers, on extensive book promotion tours. One of the writers narrates his personal experiences on his book tour.

EUDORA WELTY: A Biography. By Suzanne Marrs. Harcourt. 652 pp. $28 The writer Eudora Welty (1909-2001) lived a long, full, kind life, and Suzanne Marrs has given her a long, [...]

The different things that the writers hang or stick to their walls to encourage themselves are described. It is believed that writers are not good at interior decoration, and like to be surrounded by books and visual information.

Cloudy skies threatened rain on the morning of March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama. At Brown Chapel A.M.E. church the Sunday services concluded around noon; shortly afterward Hosea Williams and [...]

[In this lecture, delivered originally at the Catholic University of America, Washington, the Archbishop of Strasbourg develops a question close to his heart, namely theology's responsibility and tasks in today's Church and world. After having enunciated as a principle the embeddedness of this responsibility in faith considered as a total entity, he then outlines the relationship between the different aspects of this faith and theology' s multiple tasks. In the final section, he enumerates three formal characteristics of theology that emerge from its direct connection with faith.], THEOLOGY AS SUCH and in its entirety relates to faith. Theology by its very origin depends on faith; its end is to serve faith. Theology's responsibility then is defined by [...]

A biblical understanding of God's relationship with Israel and the world helps us interpret passages in the prophetic literature that link God and violence. With tears, lament, and regret, God takes into the divine self the violent effects of sinful human activities and thereby makes possible a non-violent future for God's people., I was only a little angry; they made the disaster worse.' This seemingly minor quotation from Zech 1:15, which witnesses to the excessive actions of divine agents, may provide a [...]

Mention "The Delta" and vivid images come to mind of a dramatic, flat landscape etched by rows of cotton and bounded by the Mississippi River. One imagines catfish, juke joints, […]

In January, 2003, six days before my driver's license expired on the birthday I share with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I went to the New Orleans renewal bureau and [...]

I came to this cabin on the outskirts of Girdwood. There had been an old sign on the highway for the place, and again in the town itself, and again [...]

Dennis Pinkerson, the oldest kid on our street, had a four-inch, purple scar along his hairline. It was thick and ridged like a worm, and he claimed it was where [...]

I had counted on Zhixing and me being together, for the rest of our lives. Her name was Xu Zhixing. The first time I saw her, we were still first-year [...]

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE this story, believe me. Hell, even I don't believe it, and I'm its only teller now. I can tell you, though, sitting in that dim [...]

The Maguires' garage was immense, or seemed so, and dimly lit, in such a way that we, the children, cast strange shadows or were in shadow, and you couldn't, as [...]

There was an earthquake at the bank this morning: totally minor, maybe a 3. This is peanuts for the central valley, but the tellers, I swear to you, acted like [...]

Women think they know everything about love and they are wrong. Men think they know nothing about love and they are wrong, too. Books spoil you for love Love spoils [...]

I think the last time I saw you may have been that time near the church. I still like that church despite this, though the church is also other things [...]

After first articulating common challenges raised against Christian mission to Muslims, in this article I want to reflect on fundamental issues to be taken into account whenever Christians think of [...]