Antioch Review, The

The Sublime and Other Meditations

Fear of the Sublime

Velde opines that like the novelist Henry James, the sublime is cultivated taste, who as artist evokes a particular musty version of the sublime ideal. The sublime often identified with beauty is so only incidentally, and in itself is actually inimical to beauty. Yet if muses, sacred springs, and epic heroism are risible matter in the classroom, beauty and the sublime are better known, if only in the breach, for flustered silence.

Our Thoughts and Our Prayers

Cottle talks about what praying actually means, much less whether there really is something called a power that emanates from this activity. He relates when he met a patient in his early sixties who told him he had survived prostate cancer, colon cancer, and was living with diabetes. The patient is an educator, a father of six, a truly good man, and a man of God. Cottle says that seventy percent of people pray outside of any religious service. Even people who don't believe in God pray. They m...

Mrs. V. And the Lessons of Obscurity

Miller recalls when he and his wife went Oakwood cemetery where they saw a diminutive but solid mausoleum misremembered as a shack. As he glimpsed the weathered wafer of a headstone leaning against a stout tree with wide span. Rock marked simply and deeply: Mrs. V. Miller says that it was a place that became a resting spot thanks to the laziness--or instinctive understanding--of a caretaker never seen, only smelled in air-carpeting fumes of cut grass and weeds.

Loren Eiseley's Remembrance of Things Past

Lago explores the work of Loren Eiseley, a literary nature writer with the right poetic eye who devoted himself to exploring the new dimensions of nature. As a boy Loren Eiseley was enthralled by the dinosaur and felt the past being translated into his own tired limbs and pleased touch, becoming as real as the July sun and the badlands dust storms. In his book The Immense Journey, Eiseley wrote about searching for fossils in the primordial-looking badlands and provided insight that evolution ...

Home From the Factory

A poem is presented.

Sermon On the Air

A poem is presented.

Another Life

A poem is presented.

Keraunothnetophobia*

A poem is presented.

Roses, Chapter Four

A poem is presented.

Bike Ride with Hokusai Ending

A poem is presented.

The Sea

A poem is presented.

The Dilemma

A poem is presented.

Find/Methods

A poem is presented.

Chimera: A Noblewoman's Portrait

A poem is presented.

Ulysses

A poem is presented.

Of Cavalcanti

A poem is presented.

Lunch Across the Bridge

A short story is presented.

The Interpreter

A short story is presented.

Distortions

A short story is presented.

Niche

A short story is presented.

Swaying Buildings

A short story is presented.

Perfect Silence

A short story is presented.

Set Free in Florida: 1992

A short story is presented.

A Nation of Men . . . And Laws

Panetta examines the worst neglect of enforcement in civil rights in various US government agencies. He cites the Agriculture Department, the Veterans Administration, and Defense Department, all of which have the tools to increase minority rights and opportunities, but which have opted to leave the tools in the shed and conduct discriminatory business as usual. He argues that this lack of effective enforcement in the civil rights area, combined with the deliberate acts of retreat by the admin...

Prague As a Poem: Vítezslav Nezval and Emil Hakl

Taylor reviews several books, including Prague with Fingers of Rain by Vitezslav Nezval and translated by Ewald Osers, Antilyrik & Other Poems by Vitezslav Nezval and translated by Jerome Rothenberg and Milos Sovak, and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval and translated by David Short.

Cheever / Barthelme: Ovid of Ossining, Meet Hiding Man From Texas

Shivani reviews Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey and Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty.

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

Brzezinski reviews Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews.

Ayn Rand and the World She Made

Ezrati reviews Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne C. Heller.

Unrest

Markham reviews Umest by Joanna Rawson.