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Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism: Writings from Modern Age, by George A. Panichas. Foreword by Jeremy Beer. Wilmington: ISI Books, 2008. 301 + xxxiv pages. $28 cloth. $18 paper. This [...]

MANY OF HIS contemporaries regarded Vachel Lindsay as a major poet, essayist, and film theorist, yet his reputation has declined greatly since his death in 1931. Among recent critics, reaction [...]

This essay discusses the manner in which myths of cultural freedom and opportunity in America are portrayed in the works of Mark Twain. Topics include race relations, cultural development, and individualism.

ROBERT DRAKE IS FOND OF STATING that nothing he writes about can be considered, in any real sense, 'news to anyone,' a point that he reiterated in the 'Preface' to [...]

To compare Francis Mayes with D. H Lawrence seems pretty unfair, and I would not inflict the comparison except that I think it reveals something about the way in which [...]

In his Nobel Prize acceptance address, William Faulkner, speaking of the 'fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it' ('Address' 723), alluded to the instinctive fear [...]

Antun Soljan. A Brief Excursion and Other Stories. Ellen Elias-Bursac, tr. Evanston, Il. Northwestern University Press. 2000 (c1999). x + 252 pages. $16.95. ISBN 0-8101-1635-9. The lengthy novella' A Brief [...]

Henry Roth, who died in 1995 at age 89, was the author of Call It Sleep (1934), Shifting Landscape (1987), and a multi-volume novel, Mercy of a Rude Stream, published [...]

As the editors note in their introduction, in Serbian writing 'the past always informs the present.' In this writing, a sense of the legacy of history is inevitable, and appropriately [...]

The theme of minor alienation and a contemporary tone of insincerity underlie each of the three stories in Women with Men. Martin Austin, a forty-four-year-old sales representative from Chicago, abandons [...]

For those readers who have followed Ira Stigman though the first two volumes of Mercy of a Rude Stream (see WLT 68:4, p. 813, and 69:4, p. 797), there is [...]

Dan B. Miller's Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road is an honest and moving biography of one of the twentieth century's most popular, and once most critically acclaimed, authors. [...]

For the last twenty years, the Pushcart Prize anthologies have published a selection of 'the best of the small presses,' and even a cursory examination of the work published over [...]

As a postmodern autobiographical fiction, Once Upon a Time textualizes the incidents of an author's life, finding meaning in those events, however conventional these may be in 'actual' experience. In [...]

In the interspaced, present-tense dialogue conducted between Henry Roth in the role of author and his word processor, which he designates 'Ecclesias,' Roth (b. 1906) considers questions of his fundamental [...]

Now recognized as one of the South's finest living writers, Reynolds Price is author of the Mustian trilogy--which includes A Long and Happy Life (1962), A Generous Man (1966), and [...]

Tim Gautreaux. The Clearing. New York. Knopf. 2003. 305 pages. $23. ISBN 0-375-41474-6 TIM GAUTREAUX'S recent novel The Clearing is essentially a fable of the struggle between civilization and barbarism [...]