Sublime

America in the 1950s and ’60s was paradoxically the richest superpower in world history and functioned as a kind of mass-industrial conspiracy to kill its own residents.

here, plainly, Updike is more interested in his personal filing-system than in his normal courteousness towards the reader.

Some writers like John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and William

It’s just this definition of “author” that Barthes in ’68 was trying to refute, arguing with respect to the first criterion that a writer cannot determine his text’s consequences enough to be really responsible (Salinger wasn’t hauled into court as an accessory when John Lennon was shot), and with respect to the second that the writer’s not the tex

'Pneumatic

Taylor was trying to make the case that the Argentine crisis was handled better than is commonly understood. This is the theory: Although IMF rescues failed to keep Argentina from defaulting and devaluing, they still had important benefits, and this applies to the second rescue in August 2001 as well as the blindaje in December 2000. Markets worldw

maverick.

One of the few things I would rather run a mile than do is have an Angus Wilson character over for the evening.