Hot Chocolate in Heaven

by John Wilson

Walgermo has achieved a small miracle of tact, insight, and gentle humor. Continue Reading »

24 Dec 2020

Death of a Spy

by John Wilson

In memory of the spy and novelist John le Carré. Continue Reading »

18 Dec 2020

Judging by the Cover

by John Wilson

The Look of the Book nudged me repeatedly to hunt in my own shelves and stacks for books the look of which had caught my eye once upon a time. Continue Reading »

10 Dec 2020

Books for Christmas—2020

by George Weigel

Some suggestions for Christmastide book-giving. Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2020

Briefly Noted

by Various

The Love That Is God:An Invitation to Christian Faithby frederick christian bauerschmidt eerdmans, 147 pages, $18.99 Bauerschmidt has the heart of an evangelist. The Love That Is God reads like a manifesto for those jaded by the Christian faith, in which Bauerschmidt insists that the God of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2020

Why We Need Cluny Media

by Sohrab Ahmari

Cluny Media republishes rare and hard-to-find classics of Catholic letters.  Continue Reading »

28 Nov 2020

A Year of Reading: 2020

by John Wilson

A Thanksgiving feast of book recommendations from 2020. Continue Reading »

26 Nov 2020

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