This post originally appeared in Cleveland Review of Books Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Firesis a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the internationally famous Little House books. In it, Fraser tells a story of sweeping historical significance, at
This article won the 2018 British Association for American Studies (BAAS) postgraduate essay award. It was originally published on US Studies Online. Since his first works came to critical attention, Ernest Hemingway has occupied a space in the critical and cultural
The Daemon Knows is an exploration of what Bloom calls the “American sublime”: that class of literature that reaches beyond the human, in a way that is distinctly American. What is beyond the human falls, by Bloom’s estimation, into three