The Great Fires

The Great FiresBy: Jack Gilbert JOYCE'S MOTTO has had much fame but few apostles. Among them, there has been Jack Gilbert and his orthodoxy, a strictness that has required of this poet, now in the seventh decade of his severe life, the penalty of his having had almost no fame at all. In an era that puts before the artist so many sleek and official temptations, keeping unflinchingly to a code of "silence, exile, and cunning" could not have been managed without a show

And as she works under the watchful eye of handsome Nicholas Sutton

Each boy finds his plans for success veering off in unexpected and sometimes diastrous directions

—Wall Street Journal

isn't enough to pull Carrey out of his slump

Big Nate Laugh-O-Rama

And though Sarah’s beauty stirs the desires of jaded aristocrats

with the city rocked by fighting between Jews and the Swastika Club

but Lajos’s arrival begins a day of high theater that will leave Esther’s life dramatically changed again

in Canterbury

intent on his own definition of justice

Jessie believes scandal makes good news

Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after