Philip M. Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College Emeritus. His books include Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction and Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner.
Our identity—insofar as it may be thought of as a fortress—is less adept at resisting life’s various microassaults at 3 am.