Autumn 1989

Frances Mayes’s “10,000 Rules to Live By” Ashley Brown’s “T.S. Eliot In the Postmodern Age” Robert Zaretsky’s “The Eclipse of Memory” Scott Donaldson’s “The Jilting of Ernest Hemingway” Stories by Frances Mayes, Ashley Brown, Robert Zaretsky, and Scott Donaldson Poetry by Sherod Santos, Meredith Briggs Skeath, Judith E. Johnson, and Keith Althaus
Autumn 1989

Volume 65, Number 4

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Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1989

T.S. Eliot in the Postmodern Age

By Ashley Brown
Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 1989

The Heart of American History

By Edward L. Ayers
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1989

Bridget Mcgonagle Briggs (1887-1913)

By Meredith Briggs Skeath
 
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A Partisan Biography

By Paul Roazen
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Crucifixion

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The Accomplice

By Catherine Petroski
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Painting One Another

By Sue Cowing
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Higher Education and Women

By Janet Mcnew
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Infant Nursing, Sketch by Paula Modersohn-Becker

By Sue Cowing
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10,000 Rules to Live By

By Frances Mayes
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Blessed and Brooding

By Debra Bruce
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Zenith

By John Bovey
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Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1989

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The Apricot Tree

By Nicholas Rinaldi
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The Rise of Popular Sovereignty

By Stephen Innes
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The Eclipse of Memory

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Outside the Orchard

By Meredith Briggs Skeath
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The Green Room, Autumn 1989

By Staige D. Blackford
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The Jilting of Ernest Hemingway

By Scott Donaldson
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Reprint, Autumn 1989

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Down-And-Out American Voices

By Robert Coles
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The Water-Girl

By George Packer
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As If I Watched Late Last Night With Baudelaire

By Judith E. Johnson
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Nazi Fathers and Non-Nazi Sons

By Martin Birnbach
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An American Tradition In Foreign Affairs

By Norman A. Graebner
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On Style

By Sherod Santos
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Mark Van Doren’s Literary Letters

By Sholom J. Kahn
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The Necessity of Boredom

By Patricia Meyer Spacks
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South Wing

By Keith Althaus

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