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Hal Crowther

About

Hal Crowther is the author of four collections of essays, including Unarmed But Dangerous, Cathedrals of Kudzu, and Gather at the River, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s prize for criticism. He just published a book on H. L. Mencken.

Articles

Issue 21/22, Summer 1998

The King and I

I feel like the loser who was invited to the Crucifixion but stayed home to mend his nets, or whatever Galileans did on weekends.

By Hal Crowther
Issue 23, Fall 1998

The End of the Trail

Cormac McCarthy should revisit his home in Tennessee, where stoic cowboys and desert oracles don’t much signify.

By Hal Crowther

The Mind Revisited

By Hal Crowther

Will Davis Campbell (1924-2013)

By Hal Crowther

The Night Watchman

By Hal Crowther

IN MENCKEN'S SHADOW

"Sherman burned his path through the South with bullets and torches. Fifty years later, the acerbic Mencken burned a wider path through its ego, through the fragile self-respect that the South had...

By Hal Crowther