Critical Essay by Roger Sale
The writing [in Winter in the Blood] is constantly fending off easy attitudes and conclusions with a flat, brooding precision. The reader keeps wanting to be able to make...
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Critical Essay by John R. Milton
[James Welch] is the best American Indian poet in terms of techniques, production, attitudes, and what must be called competence. One argument advanced against this o...
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Critical Essay by Blanche H. Gelfant
James Welch's fine novel, Winter in the Blood, the story of a 32-year-old Indian on a Montana reservation, depends upon understatement, requires it, would ...
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Critical Essay by Syed Amanuddin
Nature and Native American poetry are not merely related by alliteration; they also have a spiritual bond which is a result of hundreds of years of contact and togeth...
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Critical Essay by Robert Holland
In Riding the Earthboy 40,… [James Welch] would give us something of the material and spiritual poverty of the American Indian reservation, or rather, and more...
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Critical Essay by Don Kunz
Winter in the Blood … is a novel in which the nameless protagonist's search for an authentic and meaningful sense of being in the world is structured around v...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Horton
There are few laughs in Winter in the Blood … even though the narrator shares characteristics of a trickster, joker, and fool…. [The] narrator is a media...
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Critical Essay by Alan R. Velie
Winter in the Blood is in no way a protest novel. Not only is it far more complex, it really is neither bitter nor angry. In fact, although it is powerful and moving i...
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Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked the United States on Tuesday to free five British residents from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay _ a policy reversal that was welcomed by the B...
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Critical Essay by Roger Sale
UK asks US to release 5 from Guantanamo
