Hal Crowther is an award-winning critic and essayist, a journalist whose work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Granta, and Narrative magazines, among many others, and in the Oxford American, where his column “Dealer’s Choice” was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. His columns and reviews have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Spectator, and many independent weeklies and journals. A recipient of the Baltimore Sun’s Mencken Award for Writing, he is the author of four essay collections and An Infuriating American: The Incendiary Arts of H.L. Mencken. His most recent collection was Freedom Fighters and Hellraisers (Blair, 2018). For his third collection of essays, Gather at the River, he was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism. He lives in Hillsborough, NC, with his wife, novelist Lee Smith.

• I. Old Times There Are Not ForgottenFacing The Founder: On a Day of ShameA Confederacy of Dunces? Once Again, Dixie Wants OutBad News From Home: The White Knights Ride AgainA Whiter Shade of Pale?Blueprint For Sorrow:  The Singular Career of W. Sidney Pittman, ArchitectII. Stations of the CrossBible Belt BluesGodforsaken:  Of Death and DaffodilsChristian SoldiersIII. Politics: Ballets, Bullets, BedroomsSex and the Southern PoliticianAnd Who Will Lead Us?:  The problem with presidentsGoddess of Greed:  Ayn Rand is the Right’s Weirdest Idol of AllChaos Theory: When Madness Gains MomentumFrom the Madhouse to the White HouseSlaughterhouse America Remember the Alamo?IV. Shadows FallGoing Viral:  Fighting For Oxygen in Trump’s AmericaDarkness at Dawn: The Campus in Crisis“The Gates of Hell”---Swinging Wide?Dark Clouds Gathering: Homegrown Fascists Show Their TeethV. It’s Twilight TimeDante on BroadwayThe Twilight of Truth?Apocalypse When? Is Reality Melting With the Ice Caps?VI. Reflections and MeditationsOtherwise Occupied: What Price Revolution?The Forever Queen:  Good-bye to All ThatOut of Date: The Joys of Obsolescence

Hal Crowther is an award-winning critic and essayist, a journalist whose work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Granta, and Narrative magazines, among many others, and in the Oxford American, where his column “Dealer’s Choice” was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. His columns and reviews have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Spectator, and many independent weeklies and journals. A recipient of the Baltimore Sun’s Mencken Award for Writing, he is the author of four essay collections and An Infuriating American: The Incendiary Arts of H.L. Mencken. His most recent collection was Freedom Fighters and Hellraisers (Blair, 2018). For his third collection of essays, Gather at the River, he was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism. He lives in Hillsborough, NC, with his wife, novelist Lee Smith.

• I. Old Times There Are Not ForgottenFacing The Founder: On a Day of ShameA Confederacy of Dunces? Once Again, Dixie Wants OutBad News From Home: The White Knights Ride AgainA Whiter Shade of Pale?Blueprint For Sorrow:  The Singular Career of W. Sidney Pittman, ArchitectII. Stations of the CrossBible Belt BluesGodforsaken:  Of Death and DaffodilsChristian SoldiersIII. Politics: Ballets, Bullets, BedroomsSex and the Southern PoliticianAnd Who Will Lead Us?:  The problem with presidentsGoddess of Greed:  Ayn Rand is the Right’s Weirdest Idol of AllChaos Theory: When Madness Gains MomentumFrom the Madhouse to the White HouseSlaughterhouse America Remember the Alamo?IV. Shadows FallGoing Viral:  Fighting For Oxygen in Trump’s AmericaDarkness at Dawn: The Campus in Crisis“The Gates of Hell”---Swinging Wide?Dark Clouds Gathering: Homegrown Fascists Show Their TeethV. It’s Twilight TimeDante on BroadwayThe Twilight of Truth?Apocalypse When? Is Reality Melting With the Ice Caps?VI. Reflections and MeditationsOtherwise Occupied: What Price Revolution?The Forever Queen:  Good-bye to All ThatOut of Date: The Joys of Obsolescence