They might not all be bright ideas, but I hope they weren't entirely dim.

• A review of Ford Russell's Northrop Frye on Myth.
• A paper on Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me.
• A paper on the rhetorical theories of Richard Weaver and modern American conservatism.
• A paper on liberatory aspects of Northrop Frye's The Educated Imagination.
• A paper on August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.