Although Eudora Welty has considered herself primarily a short-story writer, and although her earliest critical acclaim resulted from her brilliant experiments with form in that genre, it was not until the publication of her novel Losing Battles (1970) t...

Eudora Welty 's achievement in the short-story genre is primarily in the area of form. Several other writers could be said to have introduced the subject matter of the South to the American short story in the twentieth century. In fact, to look at Welty'...

Eudora Welty's importance lies in the fact that during the past four decades she has produced an original and enduring body of fiction. Independent of any specific literary group, clear even of the influence of her most illustrious fellow Mississippian,...

John McCain on Wednesday sharply defended his opposition eight years ago to the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia, brushing aside protests that dogged him at campaign events and suggesting most people in the state don't want...

A rare bird that breeds in a remote Russian province is facing extinction, conservationists warned Friday, after a survey found that the numbers of the spoon-billed sandpiper had dropped dramatically.Experts from the Britain-based conservation group BirdLife International blamed the decline of breeding pairs in Chukotka...

Today is Friday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2007. There are 213 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 1, 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate Chesapeake, Captain James Lawrence, said, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing...

More than half the residents of an isolated Arctic village were evacuated as storm surges threatened to flood their slender barrier island Thursday, the latest chapter in their losing battle against the sea.With no road system within hundreds of miles of Kivalina, about 100 people,...