A visit to the Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West is a perfect encapsulation of the...
literature
Naturally, Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison is an unfinished work. All things living are unfinished. But what’s there...
Richard Wright's "lost" 1942 novel of guilt, exile, and spiritual initiation has been fortuitously pulled up from...
Let’s explode the Canon and cultivate critical distance, opening up new vistas and leaving behind stale arguments.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales is itself, and in being itself it speaks to variegated experiences beyond...
I know every single one of you is wondering whether and in what ways I appreciate James...
On Paul Bowles' short story, an alleged murder he committed, and the rediscovery of Sara Driver's 1981...
The Bowles series continues with Paul's 1955 novel about the Moroccan independence movement and the struggles of...
Exploring the Bowles cannon continues with Jane Bowles's more comedic novel about people who also wander halfway...
The "rediscovered classic" of academic life does what great art is supposed to do: immerse us in...
Since Valentine’s Day is looming on the horizon yet again, I decided to reread several of my...
Our minds are messy places. This novel takes you into the very nervous mind of an Ohio...
Christmas is a time for weird encounters and uncanny happenings.
On a recommendation from a local poet, I have started reading the short stories of an American...
Moving out after a breakup delayed me from posting on time about this biographical history of a...
The Balzac streak continues with a supernatural tale built on the fantastical conceit that our energies can...
Here's a book that takes cultural essay writing to a whole other level.
A day late and a dollar short with two stories of the rake's progress.
I suppose by middle age it's high time I started with Balzac...
On a posthumous novel by the great writer (and overwriter) from North Carolina.
