Winter 2024

Crabcakes by James Alan McPherson Simon & Schuster, 1998, 288 pp., $13 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 a well-crafted story. …

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 …

I am a professor of English at a small, selective college in central New York. Isolated in an obscure valley, the school and its surrounding village sometimes remain white with snow until late spring. A black tenured member of this …

A young dissertation student at the University of Chicago, I first came to Howard to teach composition in the Department of English. From 1978 to 1983, I taught four writing courses a semester for five difficult years. The campus on …