From Spring 1989 Explore This Issue Notes Toward a Better Fiction (on Prize Stories 1988: The O. Henry Awards by William Abrahams; The Best American Short Stories, 1988 by Mark Helprin; & New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 1988 by Shannon Ravenel) By T. E. Holt From the Spring 1989 Issue ← Cultural Power (on Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America by Lawrence W. Levine & Boxed In: The Culture of TV by Mark Crispin Miller) → on The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism by Geoffrey Galt Harpham