Evan Kindley

Oct 12, 2023 | chronicle.com | Evan Kindley

This month, Gettysburg College announced that it was shutting down The Gettysburg Review, one of the nation’s top literary magazines. The Review, which was founded in 1988 by Peter Stitt, has been affiliated with the college since its inception, and has published notable writers including E.L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, James Tate, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Jul 31, 2023 | newrepublic.com | Evan Kindley

The historical novel, once considered the height of kitsch—Henry James described it as “condemned … to a fatal cheapness”—has staged a remarkable comeback over the course of the last several decades. In his forthcoming study Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon, the literary scholar Alexander Manshel argues that the historical novel has steadily emerged as the single most prestigious genre of contemporary literature in the twenty-first century.