Hamilton Cain

Author Archive

  • Sep 12, 2024
    A few years ago, I met up with my friend Michael Reynolds, editor-in-chief of Europa Editions and publisher of such global luminaries as Elena Ferrante and Mieko Kawakami, at a bar...
  • Sep 6, 2024
    Lookout Mountain dominates the landscape of TAG, the intersection of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, coursing through all three states before tapering to its prominent point, like...
  • Jul 31, 2024
    Best known as the smiley co-host of “Hee Haw,” Buck Owens (1929-2006) had a thriving career long before his on-camera debut. As the frontman for his eponymous band, based...
  • Jul 23, 2024
    I’M NOT THE FIRST to say it, nor will I be the last: Irish writers are kicking arse, forging narratives for our fraught and fevered moment, spinning tensions between English...
  • May 10, 2024
    On January 10, 1963, one month before she took her life, Sylvia Plath recorded her last session with the BBC in London amid snowy, frigid weather that brought the city to a...
  • May 9, 2024
    In a 2021 New York Times essay, Jonathan Lee probed the resurgence of the historical novel untethered from conventions of genre — a vital and groundbreaking form, more...
  • May 8, 2024
    For a nation still comparatively young among world powers, the United States approaches its Semiquincentennial (250th birthday) with a muscular, impressive, often shameful...