Frank Lentricchia was born 23 May 1940 in Utica, New York to Frank John and Ann (née Yacovella) Lentricchia, working-class, second-generation Italian Americans. As a child, he was in most respects ordinary: he attended public school, where he...

Ours is a confessional age, as the popularity of Oprah Winfrey's and other television talk-shows testifies to. Recently, the confessional mode has made its way into what--for at least the first half of this century--aspired to be a relatively impartial, objective, and impersonal...

Stanley Hauerwas and Frank Lentricchia, eds. Dissent From the Homeland: Essays After September 11. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. viii + 226 pp. This collection must have opened eyes when it originally appeared in 2002 as a special issue of the South Atlantic...