“A newspaper for people who can’t read, edited by an editor who can’t write”Jim Comstock (1911–96) was the iconoclastic editor of the West Virginia Hillbilly, a “weakly” paper based in Richwood, a former logging boomtown in Nicholas County fallen…

Henry de Montherlant’s novels have fallen out of fashion, but at their best they’re perfect for our confused age.Henry de Montherlant began writing in earnest after he came home wounded from the Great War, a decorated veteran. France in the 1930s mad…

At ninety-five, Maria Beig remains deeply underread in America.No one captures the brutality and pragmatism of rural life like Maria Beig, who turned ninety-five last week. One of thirteen children, she was born in 1920 on a farm in Swabia, a few mil…