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...
Waltharius edited and translated by Abram Ring. Peeters, 2016. Paperback, 198 pages, $63. A. M. JUSTER Western literature begins with greatness on a grand scale. Homer’s magnificent epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, created the framework and the impetus for...
Selected Letters: Volumes I & II by Francesco Petrarca, translated and edited by Elaine Fantham. Harvard University Press, 2017. Hardcover, 800 + 816 pages, $30 + $30.Contemporary readers of poetry tend to underestimate the power and influence of the Canzoniere of...
Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn. Harper, 2016. Hardcover, 336 pages, $26.In the United States we cede too much control of the humanities to professors who wall off their subject matters from the public with the rhetoric of...
Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage by Jason Craig and Dave Malloy. Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI. Run: September 8–October 9, 2016. America lacks a national epic that helps to define our national identity. In English we inherited from the British two...
Home, Sour Home---Daniel Fischer reviews "Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations" by @BenedictBeckeld Northern Illinois University Press
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/home-sour-home/
.@jp_omalley Interviews Author @FrankTallis on his recent book: "Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind" @stmartinspress
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