We all know the story: a young soldier marches proudly off to war, his or her (usually his) uniform pressed and tidy, chest puffed out, only to learn that war is Hell. It’s one of the first narrative ...
Ronald Colman, at right, with Myrna Loy and Alec Francis, fights a Caribbean plague in the 1931 film version of the Sinclair Lewis novel. (IMDB.com) America has had a curious relationship with ...
America has had a curious relationship with Sinclair Lewis, the very first of our Nobel laureates in literature. “The books are little read today, and he’s seldom discussed in his native land outside ...