Remembering Mao’s Carnival of Hate

by Robert Carle

In the last seventy years, the Chinese Communist party has embarked on countless experiments that have left its subjects exhausted, which has lead to a rise in religious faith.  Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2024

A Year of Reading: 2023

by John Wilson

These are the books that swam most readily into consciousness. Continue Reading »

15 Dec 2023

When Science Fiction Becomes Historical Fiction

by John Wilson

The future quickly becomes the past. Continue Reading »

6 Oct 2023

Peter Brown’s Quest for the Supernatural

by Kevin Martin

Peter Brown’s latest book is a genre-defying personal account of the life, work, and intellectual development of an acclaimed historian of late antiquity. Continue Reading »

18 Sep 2023

Cultural Gatekeepers and Books

by John Wilson

Why isn’t there any publication covering the world of books and publishing from a perspective quite different from that of our ideological masters? Now especially, this would be an indispensable resource. Continue Reading »

11 Aug 2023

The Lure of Orwell

by John Wilson

I am struck by the everyday misery and uncertainty and sheer muddle that George Orwell endured, along with his quotidian joys and satisfactions; particularly when juxtaposed with today's handwringing.  Continue Reading »

19 May 2023

What We've Been Reading—April 2023

by Editors

One truth particularly deserving of universal acknowledgment is that there are a threatening number of “great works of literature.” Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2023

Misunderstood Missionaries

by John Wilson

It is not unusual to come across writers trading on received notions of “evangelicals,” the like of which they would never countenance in their own house.  Continue Reading »

21 Apr 2023

What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023

by Editors

Our editors reflect on Gustave Flaubert, Anglo-Saxon illustrations, Yuko Tsushima, C. S. Lewis, and James Herriot. Continue Reading »

27 Mar 2023

Gambling and the American Pastime

by John Wilson

Reading this book gave me a sense of visiting another world, roughly a century ago, in some respects similar to ours but in other ways radically different: time-travel on the cheap. Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2023