V. S. Naipaul (pictured) and Charles Dickens were great writers. Both were responsible for enormous cruelties in their personal lives. Sam Schulman wrestles with the question of a writer's character.
continue reading >The Coen Brothers and Modern Morality: Is being empty of evil the same as being good?
continue reading >Reviewer Emily Colette Wilkinson praises Terry Castle's courage in revealing her own foolishness.
continue reading >It was a time when writers such as John Steinbeck and James Agee "discovered" America's poor.
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