Book Reviews
Summer 2000
The Powers and Pleasures of This Language
The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline by Robert Scholes. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998. 203 pages. $20.00, hardbound. What is literature? What is its value? […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1992
Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins: The Detective and Afro-American Fiction
I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy’s bar. It’s not just that he was white but he wore an off-white linen suit and shirt with a […]