Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation for what has been called artistic license or dishonesty...
The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Commonly regarded as the founder of social realism, he also...
NOT RECONCILED Said's posthumous book considers "lateness," in art and criticism ON LATE STYLE: MUSIC AND LITERATURE AGAINST THE GRAIN BY EDWARD W. SAID, FOREWORD BY MARIAM C. SAID, INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL WOOD NEW YORK: PANTHEON. 208 PAGES. $25. In considering here how...
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Minnesota Monthly
the Reconciler 06/01/2004: 4,147 words, approx. 14 pages
How did a kid from a lily-white town near Kalamazoo grow up to become one of the leading figures in America's faith-based racial reconciliation movement? For Curtiss DeYoung-preacher, scholar, author, and professor at Bethel College in Arden Hills-the journey began with a visit to...
