Posted by: redlove on: July 6, 2008
1. “The Visible World”, by Mark Slouka (Houghton Mifflin, $13.95) The children of immigrants often struggle to understand a history they have not experienced that has nonetheless shaped them. Slouka’s sensitive secodn novel combines three stories: the Queens childhood of the son of Czech immigrants, his trip to Prague to learn more about his parents’ [...]
Posted by: redlove on: June 16, 2008
What 9.11 brought to American people was more psychological terror than the bomb itself. I have always been feeling sympathetic with American people, since I thought no one has the right to bring any other people such kind of disastrous damage. However, I didn’t expect that American people were revenging with same kind of psychological [...]
Posted by: redlove on: April 20, 2008
Philadelphia, March 18, 2008 “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had [...]
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