
Modernist, Humanist, Compromised Faulkner
Faulkner’s chroniclers have to reconcile the novelist’s often repellent political positions with the extraordinary meditations on race, violence, and cruelty in his fiction.
The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897–1934
by Carl Rollyson
The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935–1962
by Carl Rollyson
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War
by Michael Gorra
January 14, 2021 issue