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.

American novelists of the 20th Century have been much possessed by damnation. Though Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck et al. never use the old-fashioned language of theology, the world they describe ...

''There are masterpieces from Faulkner and Hemingway, the first sound films from Alfred Hitchcock, Cecil B. DeMille, and John Ford, and amazing music from Fats Waller, Cole Porter, and George ...