Kamis, 16 Maret 2017

Something to Write Tomes About

The war’s brutality changed American literature for good. What is the best American Civil War novel? may be as unanswerable as “What is the meaning of life?” Ever since Appomattox, critics have argued about which The question fictional accounts of the war come closest to capturing the truth—whether it be the individual experience of a …

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