Mark Bauerlein

Mark Bauerlein is professor emeritus of English at Emory University and a senior editor of First Things.

The Novel Truth

Novels have a special power to reveal the truth.

E.D. Hirsch’s long crusade.

Fixing the unfixable.

If the novel doesn’t flourish, then our era is a purposeless one, and life a random course of ups and downs.

It won’t be long before all living memory of a time before the personal computer is gone.

Camille Paglia against the feminists.

David Horowitz was right about the Left.

Ernest Hemingway's life and letters.

A theory's improbable triumph in the academy.

A review of Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel, by Philip F. Gura

America's story is interwoven with religion and cannot be told accurately without noting Christianity's influence.