Tag: The Great American Novel

  • The Ten Novels That Capture the Soul of America

    The Ten Novels That Capture the Soul of America

    America has always been a country unusually dependent on story. Before it became a superpower, before it became a marketplace, before it became a screen onto which the rest of the world projected desire and dread, it was already narrating itself: as wilderness, covenant, republic, frontier, refuge, opportunity, innocence, exception, destiny. No nation has been…