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What to Read When You Want to Travel
Much of the plot of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop is lost to me, though I consider it one of my favorite books. I have a sense that it involves a young priest rising through the ranks of the Catholic Church as New Mexico is flooded by settlers, and I also know that—spoiler alert!—he dies at the end. But what remain indelible are two oddly mathematical vistas. In the novel’s opening pages, a man winds his way through
Patricia Lockwood: At the Lighthouse With Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse, from the first word of its title, is a novel that moves. Here it comes striding across the lawn, with its hair in long, curving crimps and a deerstalker hat on its head, with a bag in one hand and a child trailing from the other. It is coming to find you, its face lights up, there is something in this world for you to do.
Die wahren Orte, an denen Southern Fictions entstanden
Tatsächlich ist „Jill’s Room“ wie die meisten Orte, die Stauffer fotografiert hat, nur am Titel zu erkennen. Die Schönheit dieser Bilder liegt nicht nur in ihrer Beziehung zu einem bestimmten Autor, sondern allgemeiner zu der Region insgesamt, das Pathos und Mitleid durch das Gewicht der ikonischen Substantive mitreißt. Sorgfältiges Studium könnte dazu führen, dass „Walker“ auf den Grabsteinen in einem Bild bemerkt wird und enthüllt, was der Titel sagt: dass dies der Friedhof der African Methodist Episcopal Church ist, auf