History as told by the devil incarnate: Gore Vidal's Burr / Joanne B. Freeman
Burr: the historical novel / Gore Vidal
Notes of a disillusioned lover: John Updike's Memories of the Ford administration / Paul Boyer
Russell Banks's fictional portrait of John Brown / James M. McPherson
In response to James McPherson's reading of Cloudsplitter / Russell Banks
Why Oswald missed: Don DeLillo's Libra / David T. Courtwright
The fictional man / Don DeLillo
The Aztec world of Gary Jennings / Michael E. Smith
My indignant response / Gary Jennings
A review of Annie Dillard's The living / Richard White
On the trail with Gus and Call: Lonesome dove and the western myth / Elliott West
On Lonesome dove / Larry McMurtry
Real lives and other fictions: reconsidering Wallace Stegner's Angle of repose / John Demos
The historical imagination of A thousand acres / John Mack Faragher
Not a pretty picture / Jane Smiley
Commerce in souls: Uncle Tom's cabin and the state of the nation / Joan D. Hedrick
Bodies and souls: the Haitian revolution and Madison Smartt Bell's All soul's rising / Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Engaging the past / Madison Smartt Bell
William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner: a meditation on evil, redemption, and history / Eugene D. Genovese
More confessions / William Styron
Hawthorne's cultural demons: history, popular culture, and The scarlet letter / David S. Reynolds
The great Gatsby? Yes, a historical novel / John Lukacs
T. Coraghessan Boyle and World's end / Michael Kammen
History on two wheels / T. C. Boyle
Albany the wondrous: William Kennedy's history in Quinn's book / Mark C. Carnes
Quinn's book: looking for the buried myth / William Kennedy
White men in Africa: on Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible / Diane Kunz
A war like all wars / Tom Wicker
Some remarks on history and fiction / Charles Frazier
An essay by (historian) Thomas Fleming on Time and tide / (novelist) Thomas Fleming
(novelist) Thomas Fleming responds
Kicking the denial syndrome: Tim O'Brien's In the lake of the woods / H. Bruce Franklin
The whole story / Tim O'Brien.
