A Gentleman Out of Moscow
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile By Fiona Maddocks. Pegasus Books, 2024. Hardcover, 384 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Robert Bellafiore. In the last years of Romanov Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff was enjoying life as a musical giant, composing such titanic hits as the...
Taking the Road Less Traveled
Painting Over the Growth Chart By Dan Rattelle. Wiseblood Books, 2024. Paperback, 63 pages, $15. Reviewed by A.M. Juster. The spirit of Robert Frost surely does not look kindly on claims that some new poet walks in his footsteps, particularly one with a fancy-pants...
To Recover Is to Return
Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture By Anthony Esolen. Regnery Gateway, 2017/2022. Paperback, 256 pages, $16.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In an age of political correctness and guarded speech, Anthony Esolen’s writing strikes one as wonderfully...Bradley J. Birzer
Bradley J. Birzer Bradley J. Birzer is well known through his magisterial biography, Russell Kirk: American Conservative. As a result of that terrific book and his years of writing, especially as the co-founder and senior contributor of The Imaginative Conservative,...
Timely, for sure. Hope @realdonaldtrump is reading.