The work of James Lee Burke functions as a searchlight, exposing and illuminating the contradictions of the American experience. Full of grand beauty and haunting brutality, Burke’s novels and stories, like the country in which they take place, map a collision course between heroic idealism and corruption, exploitation, and evil. Burke is most beloved for … Continue reading James Lee Burke on Hemingway, Orwell, and a New Chapter in the American Battle Against Fascism