Ritual and Self-Renewal  

Crabcakes by James Alan McPherson Simon & Schuster, 1998, 288 pp., $13 [contentblock id=17 img=gcb.png] Pulitzer-Prize winner James Alan McPherson has written two highly regarded collections of short fiction, and the pleasures and insights offered by Crabcakes are those of …



Phillip Richards Replies  

There is not space enough to answer all of Martin Kilson’s characterizations of myself and my essay. Some of these go to the heart of the question as to why I wrote the essay itself. Let me say in this …







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