Book

The Saddest Words

William Faulkner's Civil War

Michael Gorra

2021

Liveright Publishing Corporation

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Book Review

William Faulkner’s Tragic Vision

In Yoknapatawpha County, the past never speaks with a single voice.

by Jonathan Clarke via City Journal on January 4, 2022
Book Review

‘A Land Where the Dead Past Walks’

Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books
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on December 20, 2020
Book Review

Faulkner Couldn’t Overcome Racism, But He Never Ignored It

That’s why the privileged White novelist’s work is still worth reading, Michael Gorra argues.

by Chandra Manning via Washington Post
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on October 2, 2020
Book Review

What to Do About William Faulkner

A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.

by Drew Gilpin Faust via The Atlantic
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on August 8, 2020

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