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As a boy, your author lived in a working-class neighborhood just outside Houston’s city limits. My parents were the children of rural people who had come to Houston looking for work during the Great Depression. They lived in frame houses

“There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism,

joined with a certain superiority in its fact.” 

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

What helps set this study apart is its still largely verboten subject.  Joseph Scotchie devotes his attention to

In Maryland, one naturally associates historical reenactment with the Civil War. Yet the only reenactor I know eschews the Civil for the Revolutionary War because, he says, “I don’t reenact events where the people are still fighting the war. They

However much they may enjoy watching Captain von Trapp sing “Edelweiss” in The Sound of Music, most Catholic intellectuals nowadays are squeamish about delving too deeply into the production’s historical background.  Such reticence is hardly surprising, for in Von

The late Mark Winchell’s recently published Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves Company is a collection of essays focusing on Warren’s close associations and literary affinities.  Warren was known as a kind and generous man who encouraged other writers in their

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again.
­­–Mark Twain

Just in case you have not heard, we are in the midst of a Culture War.  Death by

“A novel,” wrote Stendhal, “is a mirror carried along a road.”  In Cyn-thia Shearer’s new book, the road, literally speaking, is that between the invented town of Madagascar, Mississippi, where the action is centered, and Memphis, the other major setting;

The manipulative sensationalism regarding any display of the Confederate battle flag continues unabated. The New York Times gets hot and bothered, or sexually aroused—or whatever it is that the New York Times becomes—whenever that banner appears over the capitol of

“An outlaw fumbling for the latch, a voice Commanding in a dream where no flag flies.”
—Donald Davidson, “Lee in the Mountains”

The University of Missouri’s publication of Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance does much

I suppose that after William Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy (1916-1990) has been for the last three decades the most widely read of Southern writers. He has been known as a social observer as well as