Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. --D. H. Lawrence IN THE MONTH OF MAY My only real awareness of the Kentucky Derby, growing up across the river from Louisville, lay in noticing the new commemorative...

Lindsay Baly, Horseman, Pass By: The Australian Light Horse in World War I, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville NSW, 2003, 337 pages; ISBN 0 73181 174 7. In introducing her work First to Damascus, Jill, Duchess of Hamilton expounded her reason for writing...

In the following essay, Morrow, who teaches literature at Auburn University, evaluates the structure, purpose and style of Hud and The Last Picture Show, comparing them to McMurtry's subsequent works.

In the following essay Sarll, a member of the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottinham, discusses the way McMurtry juxtaposes conflicting ideas in Horseman, Pass By.

The different treatments of the same story in the novel Horseman, Pass By and the film Hud … show clearly the difficulty of translating the "mood" of a work of fiction into film and the necessity imposed by a visual medium of having characters act as visible foils to each other…. [The] film closely follows the plot of the novel, both in specific incident and in general intent. Horseman, Pass By … is remembered in retrospect through the eyes of Lonnie, its now older boyhood...