Academic prose is rarely a straightforward read. Multi-clause sentences, passive-voiced verbs, parenthetical citations, specialized vocabulary — it’s no mystery why many students, and even some ...

AMERICAN literature, excellent as it is by way of its poetry, is excellent much more by way of its prose. Received opinion, however, stands for the converse. Conscious that in emotion, invention, and ...

SO’AMBAR by Naseer Ahmad Cheema; pp 220; Price Rs250 (hb); Publishers, Pakistan Punjabi Adabi Board, Ilaqo Mansion, Patiala Ground, Lahore. Born in 1940, Cheema is an educationist by profession and ...

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter (Princeton University Press, 2010) Invisible Conversations: Religion in the Literature of America edited by Roger Lundin (Baylor ...

THE BUCKLEY PROSE STYLE...Andrew Sullivan on William F. Buckley: I know we shouldn't speak ill of the dead — but am I the only person who found Buckley close to unreadable a lot of the time? I never ...