Recently added articles from The Antioch Review:
Young Man Geertz.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; Fogarty, Robert S. ... Between 1946 and 1959 a remarkable group of individuals entered Antioch College and then graduated into the world. A significant number of them achieved considerable success in their professions and, one hopes, in their personal lives. Six members of that group (Warren Bennis, Cynthia Fuchs ...
Young Man Geertz: A Senior Paper (1949).(Personal Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Geertz, Clifford ... I. Preface The first day I came to Antioch, I wandered up by the Catholic Church looking for the college; the catalog had flooded my head with image and idea and had said the towers would be visible for fifty miles. My suitcase was heavy, everything I had brought from California was ...
A Balancing Act.(Personal Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; DeMarinis, Rick ... Wind thumped the house all night. I wake up early out of a bad sleep, seeing double. With the flexible logic of half-consciousness I believe it is this seasonal wind that has caused my vision to divide the world into separate but equal halves. I also have a brain-shredding hangover. But I ...
The Pilgrimage (Isaac B. Singer).(Personal Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Friedman, Bruce Jay ... My first and only literary pilgrimage was to the Miami home of the late Isaac Bashevis Singer. It did not take much effort. I was in Miami at the time, the late seventies. The city was just waking up, after a long slumber. I'd thought about moving there until an artist friend dissuaded me ...
A Child's View of the Great Depression.(Personal Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Horowitz, Irving Louis ... Economic depressions are usually measured in the adult world by increasing unemployment, declining stock-market prices, business bankruptcies, and assorted ailments all too well known to require repetition. Children have a far less grandiose view of such catastrophic matters. My childhood in ...
The Dealer.(Fiction)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2009; Burgin, Richard ... The dealer is a giant with a body like a bear's. I'm a good-sized man but the dealer is taller and substantially heavier. Big as he is, his voice is even bigger and compels you to listen to it. There's something else that's special about his voice. When he talks you believe what he's saying, ...
Taxi Ride.(Fiction)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2009; Hudson, Helen (American writer) ... "Pull in over there, Wesley," Bonita says, pointing to a slight opening in the woods. Wesley pulls over and they all look out at a tangle of teenagers and guitars and motorcycles. "No," Wesley says. "She wouldn't like it." "I don't like it either," Bonita says. "Drive ...
Try Not to Worry, Dr. Leopold.(Fiction)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2009; Kobin, Joann ... Elaine McHugh, his noon-hour patient on Wednesday, has gone to an African violet convention in Atlantic City, left the home she shared with her mother, ventured far afield, and returned victorious. "I've met someone, Dr. Leopold," she says, her face aglow with good news. He can feel his own ...
Escort.(Fiction)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2009; Lesser, Ellen ... "At least you don't have to hire one of those agencies. You know, that come and drag your kid off in the dead of the night." This is what Dina, Susan's glass-half-full friend, offers when Susan calls to confirm she's flying to Georgia tomorrow to place her daughter in wilderness treatment. ...
Horn Hunter.(Fiction)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2009; MacLeod, Michael J. ... Hardin Graves shot his first deer just before his seventh birthday. His old man held the rifle across one knee and said pick a doe and put it right behind her shoulder. "What does a doe look like?" the boy asked. "They have big ears." "I see one with huge ears." ...
Grate.(Fiction)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2009; Pourciau, Glen ... Marv and I work for the same outfit, and he and his wife, Janelle, were over for drinks. They'd just told us a story of how they'd tried and failed to open a plastic medicine bottle, how they'd twisted the cap every way they could think of and had gotten their rubber gripper out of the ...
Heat Wave.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Coles, Katharine ... <Pre> 1. Octet Brute sun, merciless, Strafes our lettuces. Gone. Tender moths strip Threads asunder, while Bolt screws tight Its nut. Winged. ...
Eve.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Coles, Katharine ... <Pre> Don't consult the cost. Rather, mind the body. Course, occluded, lost In its heedlessness It finds itself: too heady To consult the cost. Balance grace and dross; Weigh desire and duty. Cursed, occult, lost In my ...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Hart, John (American poet) ... <Pre> The incandescence hung like icicles, doing a balance without touching, even lightly, the floor-- it was merely the jeweled fringe of a cabaret costume on Jane Russell dancing in a French courtroom. Even God would have forgiven the lies ...
Peter Quince Absconditus.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Waldrep, G.C. ... <Pre> Peter Quince is no longer at the clavier. Peter Quince is in a cave, where the only music he can play is what his heart makes, his sinews, his bones. In the cave, Peter Quince dreams of glass windows, the white ruffled lace at women's wrists. He dreams of roast pheasant, and what ...
The Welcome Chamber.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Waldrep, G.C. ... <Pre> In the welcome chamber somebody is always waiting to help you with your hat or your coat. Somebody is always handing you a cold drink, if it's warm outside, or a warm drink, if it's cold. Somebody offers to shine your shoes. Somebody else offers to babysit the kids for free, if you ...
The Empty Inn.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Kwasny, Melissa ... after Rene Char <Pre> I would have called these walls plum in my childhood, then perhaps claret. Plush and horsehair of Victoriana. A well-appointed inn that smells of rats. In the back of which the moss-girl sleeps alone, rises alone, dresses in the silks and satins she has ...
Bohemia Lies by the Sea.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Cramer, Steven ... Thou art perfect, then, our ship hath touched upon The deserts of Bohemia? --A Winter's Tale <Pre> If the houses here are green, I'll step into a house. If the bridges can't hold up, I'll walk on firm ground. If every age loses its labors of love, I give up mine ...
Fair Share of Abuse.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Boudreaux, Beau ... <Pre> He doubts she's from the South some town, Ofahoma, Mississippi, Enterprise, Alabama ... the lie in her Nietzsche cliche "what can't kill you makes you stronger"-- allergy, tapeworm, incest like passing a ...
The Ballade of In-Between.(Poetry)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; Yezzi, David ... <Pre> Between soft core and really hard, Why can't there be a compromise? Amid airbrushed and no-holds-barred, Where are the films for milder guys Who want some spice, but shield their eyes From fetish wear and crass effects? To what hopes may their thoughts give rise? What ever happened to ...
