The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy By Vereen M. Bell. Louisiana State University Press, 1988/2023. Paperback, 160 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Michael Yost. “I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion...
Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization By R. V. Young. Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 280 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Michael Yost. It would be almost a miracle if anyone who has read, understood, and formed opinions around the...
“The Last God’s Dream,” while certainly among the more daring of Kirk’s “experiments in the moral imagination”(as he described his literary efforts), is also one of the more successful at blending the author’s varied interests in politics, history, literature, and metaphysics.