THE SADDEST WORDS

How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of Americas most preeminent literary critics.S hould we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nations history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such iconic novels as Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury, c...[Read more]