In Memoriam: Bill Eerdmans (1923–2020)

by Jon Pott

Bill Eerdmans was a great publisher precisely because he was a great personality.  Continue Reading »

18 Nov 2020

Storyteller Extraordinaire

by John Wilson

Connelly’s novels make up one vast saga of crime and punishment, bureaucracy and domesticity, friendship and enmity. Continue Reading »

13 Nov 2020

Publishers’ Bind

by Joshua P. Hochschild

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 »

1 Nov 2020

Briefly Noted

by Mary Spencer

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 »

1 Nov 2020

Solzhenitsyn: More Than Fashionable

by John Wilson

I find that most younger readers today, while recognizing Solzhenitsyn's name, have never read him. Continue Reading »

30 Oct 2020

Baseball’s Beginnings

by John Wilson

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 »

16 Oct 2020

Coming Attractions for Autumn

by John Wilson

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 »

1 Oct 2020

Briefly Noted

by Various

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 »

1 Oct 2020

We Heard a Fly Buzz

by John Wilson

The fly is a wonderfully improbable prompt for Bob Hudson's reflections in The Poet and the Fly.  Continue Reading »

18 Sep 2020

The Books Behind the Rage

by Sohrab Ahmari

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 »

1 Sep 2020