Recently added articles from The Antioch Review:
Young Man Geertz.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Between 1946 and 1959 a remarkable group of individuals entered Antioch College and then graduated into the world. A significant number of them achieved considerable success in their professions and, one hopes, in their personal lives. Six members of that group (Warren Bennis, Cynthia Fuchs ...
Young Man Geertz: A Senior Paper (1949).(Personal Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... I. PrefaceThe first day I came to Antioch, I wandered up by the Catholic Church looking for the college; the catalog had flooded my head with image and idea and had said the towers would be visible for fifty miles. My suitcase was heavy, everything I had brought from California was ...
A Balancing Act.(Personal Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Wind thumped the house all night. I wake up early out of a bad sleep, seeing double. With the flexible logic of half-consciousness I believe it is this seasonal wind that has caused my vision to divide the world into separate but equal halves. I also have a brain-shredding hangover. But I ...
The Pilgrimage (Isaac B. Singer).(Personal Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... My first and only literary pilgrimage was to the Miami home of the late Isaac Bashevis Singer. It did not take much effort. I was in Miami at the time, the late seventies. The city was just waking up, after a long slumber. I'd thought about moving there until an artist friend dissuaded me ...
A Child's View of the Great Depression.(Personal Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Economic depressions are usually measured in the adult world by increasing unemployment, declining stock-market prices, business bankruptcies, and assorted ailments all too well known to require repetition. Children have a far less grandiose view of such catastrophic matters. My childhood in ...