From Spring 1989 Explore This Issue on The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism by Geoffrey Galt Harpham By Kieran Quinlan From the Spring 1989 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) → on The Collected Letters of William Morris. Volume I, Volume IIA, Volume IIB by Norman Kelvin