“In July, at his memorial service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the Honorable John Lewis
was eulogized by three presidents. The sitting president was not among them. His absence was yet another assertion of the anti-Black hostility and xenophobia fouling the polity with renewed vigor. We lament the current social climate as though it were anomalous, an outbreak of pestilence, when in reality these iniquities reverberate through our American centuries. We need a prophet — a voice to call up the nation’s oldest stories, a reckoning with what was so that we might understand what is. In
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War, part literary biography, part Civil War history, Michael Gorra presents a cogent case for Faulkner as one such prophet. ...”
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