Articles with keyword "fiction"
Feature
When Bram Met Walt
By Meredith Hindley
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America's poet.
Statement
Self-made Man
By Kevin Mahnken
How a strident segregationist transformed into the beloved author of Little Tree.
Conversation
Wendell Berry, Landsman
NEH Chairman Jim Leach sits down with writer and farmer Wendell Berry, this year's Jefferson Lecturer.
Feature
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
By Barbara Will
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
Conversation
The Artist as Showman
Jefferson Lecturer John Updike talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about his writing, the "gorgeous creatures" of modernism, and much else.
Curio
Them Is Fightin' Words
By Steve Moyer
An attempt at summing up NEH-funded Daniel Justin Herman’s intriguing Hell on the Range (Yale University Press, 2010) could wind up sounding like an allegory: Into Pleasant Valley there once