The Catholic Writer Today

by Mark Bauerlein

Featuring Dana Gioia on John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Jennings, and his latest collection of essays, The Catholic Writer Today. Continue Reading »

6 Jun 2019

Carry On, Plum

by Richard Rex

Jeeves and the King of Clubs:  A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouse by ben schott little, brown, 320 pages, $27 Jeeves and the Wedding Bells:  An Homage to P.G. Wodehouse by sebastian faulks st. martin’s, 256 pages, $25.99 Aunts, Comrades, Gentlemen . . . According to Hilaire Belloc, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2019

Stefan Zweig, European Man

by Joseph Epstein

The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig by stefan zweig translated by anthea bell pushkin, 384 pages, $30 The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig by stefan zweig translated by anthea bell pushkin, 720 pages, $14.99    The World of Yesterday by stefan zweig translated by anthea bell . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2019

Love in the Academic Ruins

by Dwight A. Lindley III

 If a work of literary art tells a unique and critical truth, then it is good—worth giving oneself to—and its beauty has not misled us.  Continue Reading »

24 May 2019

Marilynne Robinson and the Mystery of Grace

by Moriah Speciale

Marilynne Robinson's Gilead should be read as a summa pietatis rather than a summa theologiae.  Continue Reading »

24 May 2019

You Are Old, Father William

by John Wilson

Why are old people so invisible in our “culture”? Continue Reading »

3 May 2019

The Poet and the Mob

by Dan Hitchens

Murray’s poems pack an impossible amount of meaning into short lines. Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Australia’s Poet

by Kevin Hart

Murray’s writing about the landscape and mores of rural Australia drew attention in his home country. Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Made for Love

by R. R. Reno

In the early 1880s, Henry James set out to write “a very American tale.” The result was The Bostonians, serialized in a magazine in 1885 and then published in a single volume in 1886. The novel features activist meetings, conversations sprinkled with references to the cause of women’s . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

Les Murray, Dissident Poet

by David Mason

Les Murray's work helped raise his nation's poetry to a level of global importance.  Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2019