Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.

The essayist, critic, novelist, short story writer, and biographer presents 203 essays on such writers as Gibbon, Cervantes, Balzac, Flaubert, Woolf, Shaw, Twai

"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."—Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The M

Fiction. The essays in WHAT CAME BEFORE say without saying. Combining and blurring the genres of myth, essay, and poetry, these small works explore subjects as