It would be a mistake to read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” as a sequel to her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Yes, it takes place a generation after the earlier book, ...

"When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a bookk, who's not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel. Stupid, isn't it?" --Harper ...

It would be a mistake to read Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman as a sequel to her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird. Yes, it takes place a generation after the earlier book, involving a ...

Recently, I spent two days in a world of syrup, stumphole whisky, spittoons, billfolds, cape jessamine bushes, a long switch-blade knife that saved the lives of a boy and a girl, molasses buckets, ...

The narrator of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ When that book begins, Scout is nearly 6 years old, growing up in the fictional Maycomb County, Ala., also the setting of ‘Go Set a Watchman.’ Scout and her ...

To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama, was a tired old town in the ’30s. “Grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then. Ladies bathed before noon, ...

Recently, I spent two days in a world of syrup, stumphole whisky, spittoons, billfolds, cape jessamine bushes, a long switch-blade knife that saved the lives of a boy and a girl, molasses buckets, ...