Denis Boyles is a writer, editor, former university lecturer and the author/editor of several books of poetry, travel/history, criticism, practical advice and essays, including Design Poetics (1975), The Modern Man's Guide to Life (1986), African Lives (1989), Man Eaters Motel (1991), A Man's Life: The Complete Instructions (1996), The Pocket Professor series (2001) and Vile France (2005). For the past few years he has been writing commentary on the European press in a column for National Review Online, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs. His most recent book is Superior, Nebraska, a book about Midwestern political and social values published by Doubleday (2008). Boyles is currently at work on a book about early 20th century publishing in the U.S. and Britain for Knopf. He resides in France, where he teaches at The Brouzils Seminars, a graduate and undergraduate writing and creative arts program affiliated with Fort Hays State University in Kansas. He is co-editor (with Anthony O'Hear, director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy) of The Fortnightly Review's new series.