We Heard a Fly Buzz
by John WilsonThe fly is a wonderfully improbable prompt for Bob Hudson's reflections in The Poet and the Fly. Continue Reading »
Native Americans in the Land of Uz
by John WilsonIn Island of the Innocent, Diane Glancy writes as a seer, but one who is very down-to-earth. Continue Reading »
The Arrow of Time
by John WilsonReaders 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 »
The Joy of Gerard
by John WilsonYour appreciation of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry may be deepened by Catherine Randall’s concise and empathetic account. Continue Reading »
The State of Fictional Espionage
by John WilsonDavid 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 Detective and His Dog
by John WilsonA “vast carelessness” is the source of many of our ills. Continue Reading »
New Faiths of the Self
by Justin LeeThe new religions practiced in post-secular America are selfish, choice-obsessed, therapeutic, and adaptable to expediency. Continue Reading »
Two Cheers for Charles Taylor and Friends
by Carl R. TruemanCharles Taylor’s latest work, co-authored with Patrizia Nanz and Madeleine Beaubien, details how Western democracy is in serious trouble. Continue Reading »
Marriage of Genius
by Helen AndrewsIn the summer of 1970, Elizabeth Hardwick may have been the best nonfiction prose writer in America, just as Jim Hines was the fastest man alive and Joe Frazier was the heavyweight champion of the world. She was the queen mother of the New York Review of Books, one of its four cofounders and . . . . Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousIn The River of the Immaculate Conception, James Matthew Wilson confirms his vocation as a public poet. Commissioned by the Benedict XVI Institute, this poem sequence of seven parts leads us through the lives of St. Juan Diego, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Père Marquette, with interludes on . . . . Continue Reading »
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