From Spring 1973 Explore This Issue on From the Land and Back by Curtis K. Stadtfeld By Russell Kirk From the Spring 1973 Issue ← on In Pursuit of Relevance by Herbert J. Muller → on The Roots of Southern Writing: Essays on the Literature of the American South by C. Hugh Holman; The Writer in the South: Studies in a Literary Community by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; & Death by Melancholy: Essays on Modern Southern Fiction by Walter Sullivan