Epic does many things. Among others, it defines the nature of the human storyteller; recalls the creation of the world and of the human race; describes the paradoxical role of the hero as both the Eve
A faded newspaperman downs a double Maker’s Mark and wallows in oblivion. He is a “ham-and-egger,” a hack. Or so he thinks, until he makes the find of a lifetime in a Chicago baseme
There is widespread belief that the world's religions con-tradict each other. It follows that if one religion is true, the others must be false--an assumption that implies, and may actually create, re
