2021: Our Year in Books

by Various

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph or two about the most memorable books they read this year. Continue Reading »

31 Dec 2021 0

A Year of Reading: 2021

by John Wilson

John Wilson recaps his year in reading, chronicling the books that stand out the most. Continue Reading »

3 Dec 2021 0

The 2021 Summer Reading List

by George Weigel

What should we read this summer? George Weigel weighs in. Continue Reading »

7 Jul 2021 0

Books for the Summer of Our Discontent

by George Weigel

Since plague time began, I’ve found the following books reassuring, challenging, illuminating, and in some cases just plain fun. Continue Reading »

1 Jul 2020 0

What Should I Read?

by John Wilson

A bibliophile makes his picks for essential summer reading. Continue Reading »

28 Jun 2019 0

The Summer Reading List

by George Weigel

George Weigel weighs in on what to read this summer. Continue Reading »

26 Jun 2019 0

The Summer Reading List

by George Weigel

Fifty years ago, prior to my freshman year at Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School, the late Fr. W. Vincent Bechtel introduced me to The Summer Reading List, upper-case. Fr. Bechtel didn’t fool around: He tossed his teenage charges into the deep end of the English and American literature pool . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Jun 2015 0

In Praise of Irrelevant Reading

by Wesley Hill

When I moved to England to start a Masters degree in theology, I knew I wanted to study St. Paul’s letter to the Romans. Like many of my counterparts in the Reformed theological orbit, I was enthralled with questions of law and grace, election and final judgment. During my first year of undergraduate study, I’d sat out on the front lawn of the college green, sweating in the spring sunshine, reading N. T. Wright’s What Saint Paul Really Said. I was certain that the most important questions I could write about in my postgraduate study would have something to do with Jews and Gentiles in Christ in those dense later chapters of Paul’s Romans. Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2015 0

My Year in Reading

by Wesley Hill

Every December since my college days a few friends and I have started an email thread to swap stories of our reading experiences over the course of that year. We follow a typical top-ten format, often mimicking the two or three-sentence recap style of similar lists that appear increasingly early, like the post-Halloween Christmas marketing blitz they augment, in periodicals and websites. But we go deeper than that, too, trying to discern patterns in our interests and correlating our reports with what we’d enjoyed or endured outside the pages of books in the intervening months. Continue Reading »

9 Dec 2014 0

Books for Summer Reading

by George Weigel

Real readers read books all year round. But the convention of the “summer reading list” has become so thoroughly engrained in our culture that it seems appropriate to suggest four books-for-summer that will deepen any thoughtful Catholic’s faith—and any thoughtful Catholic’s perception of the challenges Catholics face today. Continue Reading »

2 Jul 2014 0