Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History By Edward S. Cooke, Jr. Princeton University Press, 2022. Paperback, 336 pages, $35. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. The internet has enabled not only people but various fads to enjoy a second life. “Graphic Tees”...
Homer: The Very Idea By James I. Porter. University of Chicago Press, 2021. Hardcover, 280 pages, $27.50. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In 2011 Harvard Professor of English and noted historicist critic Stephen Greenblatt published The Swerve. In this fascinating, if...
Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purposeby J. Budziszewski. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Paperback, 704 pages, $40. Reviewed by Jesse Russell St. Thomas Aquinas has been one of the principal intellectual mainstays of post-World...
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Adam Schwartz on "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" by Melanie McDonagh. @yalepress
