STEPHEN JAY GOULD teaches biology, geology, and the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of Ontogeny...

Born (1924) in Fargo, North Dakota, William H(oward) Gass grew up in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Kenyon College in 1947,...

ROBERT FITZGERALD, poet and translator of the Odyssey, the Iliad, and the Aeneid, was Boylston Profesor of Rhetoric and Oratory...

KAI ERIKSON has written Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance and Everything in Its Path: Destruction of...

– p. 573-4, The Best American Essays of the Century. GERALD EARLY is currently finishing a book entitled The Culture of Bruising:...

Alexander Cockburn on Amazon ALEXANDER COCKBURN has been an Irish citizen resident of the United States since 1973. He writes...

A prolific journalist with columns in The Spectator and Harper’s Magazine, LIONEL SHRIVER has published one short story collection and...

ELIZABETH WINKLER is a journalist and book critic based in New York. Her essays, profiles, and reviews have appeared in...

PHILIP WEINSTEIN, the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor Emeritus at Swarthmore College, has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. The...

STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for her short story collection We Are Taking Only What We...