Where have you gone, Edward Abbey?
His best work celebrated the natural world, free and clear of "the caterwauling of commerce." More than ever, America needs the ornery writer today.
Sunday, Oct 22, 2006 1:02 PM UTC 19Entertainment Books
His best work celebrated the natural world, free and clear of "the caterwauling of commerce." More than ever, America needs the ornery writer today.
Sunday, Oct 22, 2006 1:02 PM UTC 19This state's beauty and brutality are reflected in its literature, from the chronicle of explorer Cabeza de Vaca to Cormac McCarthy's masterly westerns to a history of the atomic bomb.
Monday, Jul 17, 2006 11:00 AM UTC 12Philip Roth subjects his unnamed hero to innumerable physical maladies -- a bad hernia, heart surgery, a burst appendix and more -- in his new, death-obsessed novel.
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