Month: April 2017

The Ring

By Mili Ve McNiece
From the Fall 1980 Issue
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Saying Her Name

By Brendan Galvin
From the Fall 1980 Issue
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Brendan Galvin is the author of sixteen poetry collections, most recently Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965–2005 (2005), a finalist for the National Book Award; Ocean Effects (2007); and Whirl Is King (2008)—all from Louisiana State University Press. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).

Woman at the Window

By David Walker
From the Fall 1980 Issue
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American Theater Watch, 1979-1980

By Gerald Weales
From the Fall 1980 Issue
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Gerald Weales’s “American Theater Watch” appeared in these pages from 1978 until 2010, and we have also featured on occasion his essays and reviews on topics that have included World War II and the early-career political cartoons of one Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss). In addition to his distinguished career as an author and drama specialist, Weales was a longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he retired in 1987; a senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Sri Lanka; and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.

The Competitors

By Gerald W. Barrax
From the Fall 1980 Issue
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Limits, Myths, and Morals

By Frederick Ferré
From the Fall 1980 Issue
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on Promethean Ethics: Living with Death, Competition, and Triage by Garrett Hardin

By Frederick Ferré
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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on The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change by Ihab Hassan

By William E. Cain
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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on Desperate Characters by Paula Fox, Irving Howe; & The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

By Diane Cole
From the Winter 1980 Issue
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