Signposts in a Strange Land

At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author considered by many to be one the greatest modern American writers.

Why I Live Where I LiveNew Orleans Mon AmourThe City of the DeadGoing Back to GeorgiaMississippi: The Fallen ParadiseUncle WillUncle Will's HouseA Better LouisianaThe American WarRed, White, and Blue-GrayStoicism in the SouthA Southern ViewThe Southern ModerateBourbonIs a Theory of Man Possible?Naming and BeingThe State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science?Novel-Writing in an Apocalyptic TimeHow to Be an American Novelist in Spite of Being Southern and CatholicFrom Facts to FictionPhysician as NovelistHerman MelvilleDiagnosing the Modern MalaiseEudora Welty in JacksonForeword to A Confederacy of DuncesRediscovering A Canticle for LeibowitzThe Movie Magazine: A Low "Slick"Accepting the National Book Award for The MoviegoerConcerning Love in the RuinsThe Coming Crisis in PsychiatryThe Culture CriticsThe Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern MindCulture, the Church, and EvangelizationWhy Are You a Catholic?A "Cranky Novelist" Reflects on the ChurchThe Failure and the HopeA View of Abortion, with Something to Offend EverybodyForeword to The New CatholicsIf I Had Five Minutes with the PopeAn Unpublished Letter to the TimesAnother Message in the BottleThe Holiness of the OrdinaryAn Interview with Zoltan Abadi-NagiQuestions They Never Asked MeBibliographyNotes