Few writers would dare to pick as the title of a collection of 11 short stories the name of a state that is home to 21 million people, more than a million alligators, countless snakes, and a few ...

Tim Watson
Tim Watson is professor of English at the University of Miami. He is the author of Culture Writing: Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780–1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
“The Horticulturalist of the Self”
By Tim Watson
In a 1963 issue of the New York Review of Books, Susan Sontag hailed the translation of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s major early works into English, unabashedly calling the ...