In literature

Emblems of adversity

by Terrence Des Pres,

Seamus Heaney

The art of sunbathing

by Paul Fussell,

On discovering modernism at the beach

by Walker Percy,

Now that the South has grown rich and rejoined the Union, even Southerners get lost in the lobby of the Peachtree Plaza Hotel

by Rhoda Koenig,

by Richard W. (Richard William) Murphy,

by Alfred Kazin,

by Gore Vidal,

On misusing the past

by Robert Sanford Brustein,

by Horatio Alger,

by Harper’s Staff,

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,