Encompassing selections by Jim Harrison, Alice Walker, Mark Helprin, Tobias Wolfe, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others, this collection sheds light on how to confront the oppressors of the world and how to nurture ethical human beings. Original. Tour...
The Upper Midwest, with its scattered small towns and bitter winters, is Carol Bly's source for stories that are, as Tobias Wolff says, "as particular in their settings and culture as those of Turgenev and Joyce and Flannery O'Connor, and as far from...
"The real clue to this mystery lies in its title, referring to the half-tent an American infantryman once carried with him to the battlefield, and buttoned to someone else's half for mutual protection: a covert metaphor provisioned with foregivene...