Kane Webb contributed articles to The Weekly Standard during 2001 and 2002, writing on topics including libraries, cultural commentary, and Arkansas Democratic politics. His work for the magazine reflected an interest in both policy and cultural subjects.
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt Knopf, 480 pp., $26 NO ONE seems able to talk about Donna Tartt's new novel, "The Little Friend," without talking about Donna Tartt. Take a look at the magazines with her picture on their covers and the adoring photo portraits run by Vanity Fair. Or watch the…
Little Rock, Ark. On a postcard perfect spring day, Tim Hutchinson is in a windowless conference room at a teaching hospital in Little Rock. The senior senator from Arkansas is spending part of his Easter recess at a field hearing on the shortage of nurses. The hearing wouldn't ordinarily make…
Little Rock, Ark. TWO HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS are asleep in the back row of the Arkansas Supreme Court, and the rest of their classmates, the ones with their eyes open, have that slack-jawed look of the video generation under the anesthetic of a school assignment. Who can blame them? It's not easy to…