The Fascism Obsession

by John Wilson

Here are two forthcoming books that are worth reading not only for themselves but also for the larger conversations they represent. Continue Reading »

2 Sep 2022 0

Fiction and Friendship

by John Wilson

For reasons I haven’t been able to figure out, friendship—deep, genuine friendship—gets short shrift in contemporary fiction. The Chet & Bernie books are wonderful exceptions, and I am immensely grateful for them. Continue Reading »

12 Aug 2022 0

Paradise Here and Now

by Samira Kawash

The resurgent nationalisms of recent decades have been one response to the homogenizing impulses of globalization—but nation is not the solution to homelessness in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Brisbane. Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2022 0

Style Is Vital

by Dan Hitchens

 Style is the intellect in flight: A thought can only really travel when it has the equilibrium, speed, and structure to get off the ground. Continue Reading »

28 Jun 2022 0

What Orwell Learned From Chesterton

by M. D. Aeschliman

Even after Orwell explicitly diverged from some of Chesterton’s views in the 1930s, under the influence of socialist ideas and hopes, Chesterton’s assumptions and political and ethical conceptions continued to shape him. Continue Reading »

17 May 2022 0

Les Murray the Misfit Poet

by Stephen Schmalhofer

The late Australian poet Les Murray shared with Aquinas, another fat genius, a devotion to the Unmoved Mover and dedicated each of his thirty books to the greater glory of God. He was not a voice crying out in the wilderness. He was a poet sweating out in the bush. Continue Reading »

9 May 2022 0

The Dune Phenomenon

by Elizabeth Bachmann

Dune isn’t merely the sci-fi novel of sweeping scope and futuristic gadgets, but a story of man’s craving for God. Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2021 0

America’s Search for Social Utopia

by Miles Smith

As Hawthorne knew, the iconoclastic impulse is ultimately ungovernable. In his story and in our own historical moment, the would-be societal purifiers’ appetite for destruction proves to be insatiable. Continue Reading »

8 Nov 2021 0

Every Inch A King

by Peter J. Leithart

King Lear is a political play, a drama of kingship. In Lear as in his English history plays, Shakespeare explores what happens when a world loses the political rituals that once ordered it. Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2021 0

Jonah's Prayer

by Erica Brown

As we reach the very bottom of our internal oceans, we hear Jonah’s prayer. Continue Reading »

2 Sep 2021 0