Sanford Pinsker

Sanford Pinsker is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including book-length studies of Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, Joseph Heller, and J. D. Salinger. He also has published more than 800 articles, essays, editorials, and book reviews, frequently contributing to Georgia Review, Sewanee Review, and VQR. He recently retired after 37 years of teaching at Franklin and Marshall College. He now lives in south Florida, where he writes about American literature and culture on cloudy days.

Published in VQR

• The Tortoise and the Hare; Or, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and the Vagaries of Fiction Writing, Summer 2005
• Willie Stark and the Long, Thinning Shadow of Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, Fall 2004
• Hating America, at Home and Abroad, Spring 2004
• Is "Higher Education" an Oxymoron?, Winter 2004
• Lyric Poetry’s Saving Grace, Summer 2003
• The New Minstreldom, Or Why So Much In Contemporary Black Culture Went Wrong, Spring 2003
• Climbing Over the Ethnic Fence: Reflections on Stanley Crouch and Philip Roth, Summer 2002
• Henry Adams At Ground Zero, Spring 2002
• Newspaper Pieces Between Hard Covers, Winter 2002
• Huckleberry Finn and the Problem of Freedom, Autumn 2001
• Was Ralph Waldo Emerson Our First Motivational Speaker?, Summer 2001
• A Land Where Jollity and Gloom Still Contend, Autumn 2000
• American Literature and America, 1925-2000, Spring 2000
• Walt Whitman and Our Multicultural America, Autumn 1999
• Race In America, Or Where Liberalism Went Wrong, Spring 1999
• Surveying the Black Intellectual Scene, Autumn 1998
• Stanley Crouch, Our Black American Mencken, Summer 1998
• O Tempora! O Mores! and All That, Spring 1998
• Muckraking Inside the Ivory Towers, Winter 1998
• What the Sixties Was, and Is, Autumn 1997
• Reading Faces/Reading Culture, Or How I Brooded About Three Writerly Photographs, Summer 1997
• Musing About Orwell’s "Politics and The English Language"—50 Years Later, Winter 1997
• Albert Murray: the Black Intellectuals' Maverick Patriarch, Autumn 1996
• Final Thoughts, Last Morsels, Summer 1996
• Who Killed Satan?, Spring 1996
• He Had A Dream, and It Shot Him: What Happened to Visions of Racial Harmony, and Why, Winter 1996
• Can Southern Conservatism Rise Again?, Summer 1995
• The Moose on the Family Dinner Table, Spring 1995
• Singing the Blues All the Way to the Bank, Winter 1995
• Home Boys Between Hard Covers, Autumn 1994
• The Black Intellectuals' Common Fate and Uncommon Problems, Spring 1994
• What’s Love, and Candor, Got to Do With It?, Winter 1994
• Scrapping Over America’s Soul, Winter 1993
• Is the Jewish-American Experience Over?, Autumn 1993
• America’s Conspiratorial Imagination, Autumn 1992
• William Faulkner and My Middle East Problem, Summer 1991
• Is There An American Literary Tradition?, Spring 1991
• Lost Causes/Marginal Hopes: the Collected Elegies of Irving Howe, Spring 1989
• Modernist Culture, the Cunning of History, and Paul De Man, Autumn 1988
• Cakes and Ale and English Letters, Summer 1988
• More News From Mr. Epstein’s Neighborhood, Spring 1988
• Bashing the Liberals: How Neoconservative Essayists Make Their Point, Summer 1987