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Asked by news reporters why he thought there were so many fine Southern writers, the novelist Walker Percy, who, in 1962, had just won the National Book Award, answered at once, “Because we lost the War.” His point was not the obvious one that a defeated people will have better stories to tell than the…

I wish I had kept a daily diary of all that went on while the government illegally locked us down during Covid. But I do have memories, and many of them quite wonderful. I remember the stillness and quiet, sitting in the backyard with my wife, watching our children play, watching the chickens do that…