Kansas University English professor Jim Carothers, an expert on Faulkner and Hemingway, reflects on his 46-year teaching career at the university after retiring at the end of the most recent semester.

THE REIVERS (305 pp.}—William Faulkner—Random House ($4.95). On the mythical island of Shakespeare’s Tempest, the forces of human bestiality, which raged so freely in his earlier tragedies, are held ...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - More than 50 years after William Faulkner’s last book, educators are creating an online database of his books and short stories, featuring maps, characters and other information ...

OXFORD, Miss. — More than 50 years after William Faulkner's last book, educators are creating an online database of his books and short stories, featuring maps, characters and other information that ...

A person who had not even graduated from high school. When in school, he managed a D grade in English. Yet, he bagged the Nobel Prize for Literature, two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Book Awards ...

KNIGHT’S GAMBIT (246 pp.)—William Faulkner—Random House ($2.75). In 25 years Mississippi Novelist William Faulkner has published 18 books. Some of them (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, ...

Judd Legum gives good advice on how to score the debate. Russia will build new missile defense shields and put its nukes on high alert. The Big Picture indulges in some future Secretary of Treasury ...