… silly business. Now the American South is a large and complex region, with some vastly different sub-regions … has at one point in his or her work (often at frequent points) presented, with more than a little approval, … did, it would involve as much depth psychology as social studies, but the few attempts that have been made along that …
Editor's Desk
… will shape the content for the print and digital magazine, website, and future e-books and will provide creative … enthusiasm for new technologies as well as a steadfast commitment to literature and exceptional journalism. In an … chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “He also knows how to shape the work of a writer. In his …
Fiction
… listening, or pretending to. It’s not easy to be in the company of all of these cops. I’m not comfortable with it, … This time it’s the sergeant. He says, “I’ll flash my Freddie.” At first, all my brain processes is him saying “I’ll … he turned and began writing on the whiteboard, January 26: Invasion Day. That was all it took. He wrote his name on …
… Mark Twain, by Stephen Leacock. New York: D. Appleton and Company. $2.00 per volume. The painting of personality, … It is the biographer’s business so to manipulate his materials as to give the reader a clear sense of personality, the … puritanical sense of propriety. Huck Finn’s indignant comment on his morning treatment—”They comb me all to …
… have to make at the Last Judgment for the mayhems I then committed upon the minds of quite decent college students. … journalism is gone forever. Nevertheless, the idea is a false one; it is applesauce, it is hooey, it is the sublime … Greensboro, North Carolina, “News,” one of the sanest, steadiest, and withal most enlightened newspapers to be found in …
Essays
… the nomination of Judge Carswell to the Supreme Court by commenting: “Even if he were mediocre, there are lots of … makes Athenian drama especially interesting to us, the tragedies did not volunteer solutions to specific issues of the … characters who evidence both the choric and heroic standpoints. Still, a remarkably coherent outlook does emerge …