The stories and writers of a region can work to define that region. The honest and perceptive eye of an observant writer will expose those on the outside to an unknown world, and after the reader ...

In 2004, Modernism/Modernity, The Johns Hopkins University Press magazine, published a review of the works of David Foster Wallace. It was titled “An Undeniably Controversial and Perhaps Even ...

Don't let the name fool you, sometimes grouchy can be funny. Novelists, poets, and writers of all ilk and ink from all over the New Orleans metro area recently gathered at Mac's on Boston Street in ...

There is a feature that has often marked the dust jackets of V.S. Naipaul’s books. We are first given some perfunctory details about the writer’s birth in Trinidad, his education at University College ...

Early in my career, I taught a delightful class on the post–World War II American novel. Since we met once a week, and since these were graduate-level readers, the course consisted mostly of robust ...

Ivan Ehlers was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. He has contributed humor writing and cartoons to The New Yorker since ...