Not It | Alan Inman

Jews dream of David’s reign, of Solomon’s expansive kingdom; Muslims dream of their caliphate, of a glorious empire of conquests. Yet there is a third dream at hand of middle-ground concession, an offspring of compromise, the progeny of goodwill. Let a lucid consensus reflect that there is in each conflict one single right side: that…

The demented song of a woman forty four people in this city die of the same disease Her voice rises and falls between two notes up and down the scale two words unintelligible at first She is unseen invisible out of sight maybe no more out of her mind than anyone else except that she…

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The best defense of Lionel Trilling that I have read — and Trilling needs defenders at a time when he is routinely patronized if not ignored — is Adam Kirsch’s new book, Why Trilling Matters (Yale University Press). Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination (1950), a gathering of essays on subjects ranging from Scott Fitzgerald to Freud,…

A smile so simple will make the world go round never knowing, for a smile could mean so much, making someone’s day unknowingly. Just that simple touch, a kind pat on the back, making someone’s day or one of those loving kind embraces that make one feel alive. To be alive is it to feel,…

The language of love is open to anyone with souland anyone aiming at a foreign language can add it as a string to their bowbut what I’m getting at, and if you haven’t worked it out yet you’re pretty slow,is do you understand ‘Catian’, or ‘Miaowese’, or what a cat wants you to know? Centuries…