Pinocchio, Princesses, and the Moral Imagination

by Mark Bauerlein

Vigen Guroian joins the podcast to discuss his book Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination.
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13 Jul 2023 0

A Political Awakening

by Mark Bauerlein

George Leef joins the podcast to discuss his recent novel, The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable For Our Time. Continue Reading »

26 May 2022 0

“O Christian Art, Why Can't You Be Good?”

by Mathew Block

The Contemporary Christian Music industry has shrunk to a third of its former size. Is dissatisfaction with a Christian copy-cat culture to blame? And what is “good” Christian art anyway?
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5 Jun 2015 0

Marilynne Robinson and the Conversion to Literacy

by J. L. Wall

When I was a child,” Marilynne Robinson began an early essay, “I read books.” Lila Ames, the eponymous protagonist of Robinson’s most recent novel, did not. If not for a single year of schooling, she might have never learned to read at all. When she wanders, at age thirty, into Gilead, she is ashamed of the clumsy childishness of her own penmanship. Continue Reading »

11 Dec 2014 0

50 Summer Reading Suggestions

by Joe Carter

The following is a list of favorite works of imaginative literature compiled by a literary snob. Unlike similar lists you won’t find anything as daunting as Finnegan’s Wake or as faddish as whatever Oprah is shilling to her book club. In fact, on first glance the inclusion of children’s books . . . . Continue Reading »

28 May 2010 0

25 Favorite Short Stories

by Joe Carter

In his Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defined a novel as “a short story padded.” This is an all too apt description. The inability to prune a story to its essential story is an unfortunate quality shared by many modern writers and the primary reason that bookshelves are filled with . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Nov 2009 0