Recently, I paged through a friend’s copy of a just-released bestseller in political theory. I then ordered my own copy, exactly twenty days after the book’s release. When my copy arrived, I found that it sported the same dustjacket as my friend’s, but underneath the jacket it was different. . . . . Continue Reading »
Strange Rites:New Religions for a Godless Worldtara isabella burton publicaffairs books, $28 What follows traditional religion’s decline in America is not atheism, but intuitional paganism. Traditional Abrahamic religions focus on the transcendental and eternal, but the anti-institutional . . . . Continue Reading »
In 2020, we are not that far removed from the early era of professional baseball in America, no matter how much the game has changed over the decades. Continue Reading »
Suffice it to say that we’re not likely, anytime soon, to run out of books (new and old alike) worth reading and sharing with others. Continue Reading »
A Time to Die:Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Lifeby nicolas diat ignatius, 174 pages, $17.95 Nicolas Diat is a French journalist most famous for his interviews with Cardinal Robert Sarah. In this book, he visits flourishing monasteries in France to talk with monks about death. A Time to Die, . . . . Continue Reading »
The fly is a wonderfully improbable prompt for Bob Hudson's reflections in The Poet and the Fly. Continue Reading »
Today's riots are the effect of four years of irresponsible exercises in middle-brow hysteria about American democracy giving way to fascism. Continue Reading »
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It is one thing to talk about the Resurrection. It is quite another to see the Easter fire struck in the night, the candle lit, the light of Christ filling the tomblike darkness of the waiting church. As a Catholic, I live and relive that liturgy every year; every year it astonishes me as no amount . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of John Cheever’s stories, most of which appeared in the New Yorker before being collected in a Pulitzer-winning book in 1978, regarded the author as “the Ovid of Ossining,” the artist who showed the riches and wonders of suburban life. Alert to the transcendent in the . . . . Continue Reading »
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