Books in Little

by | Sep 9, 2007

A Loeb Classical Library Reader (Harvard University Press, 234 pp.) The Loeb series of Latin and Greek texts, bound in their distinctive red and green, respectively, has been a standby for readers of the classics for generations. While other series are more focused on...
Renee Radell—She Paints Confusion in Search of Order

Renee Radell—She Paints Confusion in Search of Order

by | Sep 9, 2007

The following article appeared in the Sunday News Magazine (Detroit, Michigan) on February 24, 1974. If ever the poems of T. S. Eliot should be published in a splendid illustrated edition, Renee Radell ought to be the illustrator. For like Eliot, Mrs. Radell shows us...

Latin America’s Five Deadly Sins

by | Sep 9, 2007

Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression by Alvaro Vargas Llosa. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (New York) 276 pp., $25.00, 2005. As co-author of the 1997 classic The Manual for the Perfect Latin American Idiot, Peruvian journalist...

On Pilgrims and Park Rangers

by | Sep 9, 2007

The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America by Kevin Seamus Hasson. Encounter Books (New York), 220 pp., $25.95 cloth, 2005. When the federal courts ordered Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the...

Seeking God in Strange Places

by | Sep 9, 2007

The Truth is Out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction by Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth. Brazos Press (Grand Rapids, Mich.), 272 pp., $18.99 paper, 2006. The idea of finding a Christian moral lesson in TV science fiction could occur only...