by Thomas F. Bertonneau | Nov 14, 2010
Arts of Darkness: American Noir and the Quest for Redemption by Thomas S. Hibbs, Spence Publishing $27.95 hardcover, 2008 Early postwar French critics trumped all others in identifying and taking active critical interest in the specifically American genre that they...
by Michael J. Ard | Nov 14, 2010
Champlain’s Dream by David Hackett Fischer, New York: Simon and Schuster,848 pp., $40.00, 2009In the 1830s Black Hawk, chief of the Sac and Fox nations, recalled one of his people’s earliest memories. Many years before, his ancestor in the St. Lawrence Valley had a...