SECTION: LIFE; Pg. D1, May 14, 2001 LENGTH: 1733 words HEADLINE: THE CASE AGAINST KISSINGER; CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, IN BOOKSTORE AND BACKYARD, ACCUSES FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE OF WAR CRIMES BYLINE: DAVID DALEY; Courant Staff Writer BODY: The heavens are shaking. The skies are livid. A violent and sudden spring storm has swept through the lovely [...]

By Barry Hannah I watched him afterward. He was a kind of friend, always at Smitty’s talking over the good country vegetables, fried okra, collards, world-class cornbread. He had fantastic eyes, jarred awake like a man whose head had just been severed. He was the saddest man I’ve ever known. I can’t know what you’ve [...]

By Barry Hannah The riot and anarchy on the Ole Miss campus in 1962 has often been called the last civil war, and I was square in the thick of it as a captain of the state National Guard. All that fire and shooting, three dead by gunshot and the shooter never found, against the [...]

By Barry Hannah In Montana, Missoula, he used his deputy’s position to distance himself from men. In his office and patrol car he was a tyrant about silence, his conversation blunt, short, and dead-ended. Well respected though access to him was rare. Just a few years ago Montana, enormous and sparsely populated, its earth and [...]

By Barry Hannah With his new accent he led conversations among suspicious men. He did hear things but the men lied and invented so much it was a jam box of hell to get anything of substance from them. Two men claimed to know his father during his short tragic stay. Not a prayer. He [...]

By Barry Hannah He himself might be one of just another confused but adamant sect. This idea had crossed his mind, since he was certain there was much to repay or regain from his past woes and he knew who had burned the small church on the verge of Wall Doxey Park that Wednesday evening. [...]

By Matthew Sharpe At twenty-six, Karl Floor had had a hard life: father dead, mother dead, stepdad sick and mean, siblings none, friends none, foes so offhanded in their molestations that they did not make a crisp enough focal point for his energies. Not that he had many energies — he had few. He wasn’t [...]

By Sam Lipsyte The deli near Mediocre had a new wrap man. He rolled my order too tight. Turkey poked through the tan skin. I studied the damage through the translucent lid of the container. It was a bad way to begin my first day at my old job. I rode the elevator up with [...]

Saturday, December 19: We Happy Few by David Gordon Sunday, December 20: Milkdud by Dawn Ryan Monday, December 21: Crutch by Jami Attenberg Tuesday, December 22: Deliquesce by Marisa Matarazzo Wednesday, December 23: Lys by Paul Yoon Thursday, December 24: The Gift of the Jedi by Brent Krammes Friday, December 25: new poems by Priscilla [...]

Monday, August 24: Swimming by Lauren Grodstein Tuesday, August 25: And Down We Went by Lori Ostlund Wednesday, August 26: Dear Doris by Adam Davies Thursday, August 27: Drift by Jennine Capó Crucet Friday, August 28: Super King by Samantha Peale Saturday, August 29: H.S.S.H by Victor Lodato Sunday, August 30: Hortense by Tania James [...]