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William Faulkner
May 13, 2021
MagazineWin McCormack
The Undefeated
Ernest Hemingway’s one enduring character? Ernest Hemingway.
August 18, 2020
MagazineEvan Kindley
William Faulkner’s Southern Guilt
In disastrous interviews and his most famous novels, he struggled to reckon with racism and white supremacy.
October 11, 2017
MagazineNell Irvin Painter
Long Divisions
The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.
March 22, 2017
Ryu Spaeth
Derek Walcott’s Dueling Legacies
When we assess the reputation of a great man, can we still prioritize the work over the life?
January 15, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
This is like that time Faulkner told his daughter, “Nobody remembers Shakespeare’s child.”
January 4, 2016
Jeet Heer
The New York Public Library has William Faulkner smut, but you have to dig for it.
July 6, 2012
The New Republic Staff
From the Archives: William Faulkner’s First Published Work
July 3, 2012
The New Republic Staff
Bangalore’s Booze and Poland’s Outrage: Today’s TNR Reader
December 10, 2008
The New Republic Staff
In Defense Of 'sanctuary'
December 11, 2000
Albert Murray
William Faulkner Noun, Place and Verb
A poem
January 1, 1970
John Osborne
"What Shall Become of His Dreams?"
December 7, 1959
Irving Howe
Faulkner: End of a Road

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