Hemingway in Perspective
Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961 by Paul Hendrickson. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, 531 pp.Ernest Hemingway is to twentieth-century literature what Humphrey Bogart was to the same century’s cinema. More than any other actor, one need not...Herbert Hoover, Revisionist
Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath. Edited and with an introduction by George H. Nash. Hoover Institution Press, 2011. 957 pp. $40.95. Herbert Hoover has always been in danger of falling down the memory hole. He...Lewis’s Aeneid, Labor Amoris
C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile translated by C. S. Lewis; edited by A. T. Reyes. Yale University Press, 2011. Hardcover, 184 pages, $28.Every poetic translator worth our attention is, as it were, a secondary artist, one who attempts to employ his own...Herrick and Donne and the Problems of Modernist Poetics
Occasionally, we are brought up short in our reading by a claim that is made with great confidence—even audacity—by its author, upon a point that seems to us rather dubious. Thus, F. R. Leavis, in his book New Bearings in English Poetry (1932), states: “My suggestion...
Liberalism in its Complexity---@PhilipDBunn reviews "Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism" by Alan S. Kahan and "Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century" by Joshua L. Cherniss. Both @PrincetonUPress
Christians in the Brave New World---Jason Jewell reviews @aaron_renn's LIFE IN THE NEGATIVE WORLD @Zondervan @firstthingsmag.