Like a cold intoxicating hurricane slush on a hot summer day one can down Wilder’s "Murder Etouffee" in one sitting with all the exuberance of a tourist thirsty for the excitement of “Nawlins.” Oftentimes though a reader may devour... Read More

“The cloud of midlife unknowing,” Hammond writes, “brings sublime compensation in the freedom to be oneself. This is why it is so important to know who that self really is. Aging grants us license for just the sort of goofiness and... Read More

In the story “Words and Rags,” writes one editor, “Our dialect has the sounds of intimacy, the sounds of an enclosed hermetically sealed world.” In this collection of twenty-one essays, the seal to the Italian-American experience... Read More

Globalization’s promises of open markets, large sums of financial capital, and enlightened constitutional rule have deteriorated into all-too-frequent nightmarish scenarios of insurmountable economic inequality within and between... Read More

Having vaporized a class bully, Calvin says to Hobbes, “my ethicator machine must have had a built-in moral compromise spectral release phantasmatron!” About a world no less fantastic than Calvin’s, a world in which power-elites... Read More

To a generation pounded by the sounds of heavy metal, and bombarded by nothing-left-to-the-imagination images on the screen, the works of American literary icons from the past must seem pretty tame. Ernest Hemingway and other writers of... Read More

Within the scope of cross-cultural literature and women’s studies, insights into the lives and contributions of African women have been, at best limited and more often overlooked. This work, the second of a four-volume series,... Read More

For half a century, National Review has been the journal of choice for conservatives to learn about the politics and culture of the times—“a magazine of ideas, an attempt to change the mind of the American intellectual elite in a... Read More