By all accounts, Mauricio Wright had his mind made up and was preparing to return to the Costa Rican league for a chance at redeeming himself in the eyes of national team coach Alexandre Guimaraes. Wright, a proud man who was captain...

RICHARD WRIGHT GAGOSlAN GALLERY The wall drawings of British artist Richard Wright have an austere grandeur, even when he bypasses a traditional strength of the mural form-its command of large architectural expanses-in favor of corners and crannies. Most memorably in this show,...

Beyond its cluster of office towers, Tulsa is a city built close to the ground, a broad clash of neighborhoods you can tell apart by how the grass grows, bright and trim as a putting green in the richer sections, pale and shaggy in the...

A hundred years ago, there was William Jennings Bryan, an utterly unremarkable two-term Congressman who left Washington only to find fame on the Chautauqua Circuit as a lectern-pounding foe of big business, giant trusts and American imperialism. These days, there’s John Edwards. Like Bryan, an...

In the following essay, Ward explores Kafka's The Trial and Camus's The Outsider as texts useful in the literary and legal study of the concept of responsibility.

Richard Wright's The Outsider … disappointed many critics who, for more than a decade, had waited for a second novel from the author of Native Son…. (p. 40) The critics were partially correct. The Outsider fails to evoke the emotional intensity which stunned readers of Native Son in 1940 and which continues to affect many readers who discover the book for the first time in 1969. The Outsider's frequent echoes of [Dostoyevsky's] Crime and Punishment and of the now familiar ...