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John Wilson
Readers whose own sense of time leads to the biblical God will find much to chew on in Joseph Mazur’s The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time. Continue Reading »
Your appreciation of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry may be deepened by Catherine Randall’s concise and empathetic account. Continue Reading »
David Ignatius’s The Paladin tells a compelling story that (among other things) gives the worn-out phrase “fake news” a new urgency. Continue Reading »
A “vast carelessness” is the source of many of our ills. Continue Reading »
There is always a danger, when we visit the past, of seeing what we want to see or what we expect to see. Continue Reading »
Phil Christman’s Midwest Futures is short, cunningly constructed while seemingly casual, and rich with strange lore. Continue Reading »
Michael Connelly is a historian of the present, telling us what is “happening” with immediacy and imaginative depth through his crime novels. Continue Reading »
Daniel Taylor’s novel Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees asks readers who believe that the Bible really is “the Word of God” to think carefully about what that entails. Continue Reading »
The thirtieth anniversary of First Things has sent me back to 1990 again. Continue Reading »
Here I offer gratis a few thoughts about a writing project, in the hope that a writer or two will be inspired. Continue Reading »
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