Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War Reviewed by Philip K. Jason Subtitled “From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War,” Sacred Ties, by Tom Carhart, aims to envision what is otherwise familiar material through a new lens. Though Civil […]
October Read of the Month – Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals, by Tom Carhart
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Resurrection After Exoneration
September 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday, SLR contributor Allen Mendenhall posted a review of the new nonfiction release by John Thompson and Ronald Gauthier, Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010). The book brings to light one man’s story of a wrongful conviction, and – after tremendous legal effort – his exoneration. But John Thompson […]
Killing Time by John Holloway and Ronald M. Gauthier
September 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
Review by Allen Mendenhall John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have written a thriller. Unlike other thrillers, Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010) is not fiction. It is, in the authors’ words, “a true story” told in “narrative style.” There’s an old saying: reality is stranger than fiction. Here’s […]
Faulkner Studies in Japan, edited by Thomas L. McHaney; compiled by Kenzaburo Ohashi and Kiyoyuki Ono
June 2, 2009 by
Review by Allen Mendenhall It was with great interest—and, perhaps, skepticism, for I myself taught English in Japan—that I read Faulkner Studies in Japan, an assemblage of critical essays written and translated by Japanese academics and edited by American Thomas L. McHaney, professor of literature at Georgia State University. Whisking eagerly through the […]