“The character is definitely growing and evolving,” Kirkman says. “He's gone a long way and he's still got a long way to go. A lot of people use the term redemption arc when they talk about this ...

South African-born literary scholar Dennis Walder recently published an evocative life story called Amid the Alien Corn: A Son’s Memoir. In it, he tracks how, even as a child, he became aware that his ...