“The Southerner knows he can do more justice to reality by telling a story than he can by discussing problems or proposing abstractions,” wrote Flannery O’Connor in “Mysteries and Manners.” “It’s actually his way of reasoning and dealing with experience.” For more than two decades, John Inscoe has taught a course entitled “Southern Autobiography as [...]

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So here was my reaction when I received this unsolicited review copy of Amazing Everything: The Art of Scott C.: “Hm. That’s kind of neat.” And I gave it a cursory glance and set it aside. Some time later, I picked it up to flip through absentmindedly — and the joy of the thing kicked [...]

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Podcast Archive Listen to previous podcasts from the Book Review. In Sunday’s Book Review, Frank Rich reviews two books that chronicle the life and career of the contentious film critic Pauline Kael: “Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark” by Brian Kellow and “The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael,” edited by Sanford [...]

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POLITICIANS, SOCIALISM AND HISTORIANS, by A.J.P. Taylor. 259 pages. Stein and Day. $15.95 I owe a lot to Alan Taylor. I was schooled in, and accepted, the Roman Catholic authoritarian tradition, but after leaving high school I read “War by Time-table” and discovered that it was all right to think for yourself. Since then I [...]

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<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 4–> The book also explains how Bullitt’s friendship with William Howard Taft was an important key to Bullitt’s influential legal path. In 1899, Taft, as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, was taken with an argument the 26-year-old Bullitt made. Bullitt’s passion for Republican politics resulted [...]

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