Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man By Peter K. Andersson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a...
Muses of a Fire: Essays on Faith, Film, and Literature By Paul Krause. Stone Tower Press, 2024. Paperback, 227 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. Roman Polanski’s 1974 masterpiece Chinatown is not only a classic of film noir, but it is also one of the greatest...
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa By Anthony Grafton. Belknap Press, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. “Dame Frances Yates” is a name that usually does not cross the lips of the educated public. However, in the field of...
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power By Leah Redmond Chang. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2023. Hardcover, 512 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In the Anglophone world, there is one (and only one) Renaissance queen: Elizabeth Tudor....
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company, 1550-1650 By David Howarth. Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 480 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. One of the most popular phrases among Marxists during the long reign of Barack H. Obama was...
@NadyaWilliams81 @cjscalia @ubookman Nadya, I enjoyed this thoughtful and sharply written essay on an important book. Some day we might look for a chance to hash these issues out. Maybe with Christopher. What are the limits of political criteria? What does Christian humanism say on this question?