Still Having Trouble with Gender

Still Having Trouble with Gender

by | Oct 5, 2025

Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions By Alex Byrne. Polity Press, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. America is confused about gender, and MIT philosophy professor Alex Byrne is here to help. Earlier this year, Byrne faced down...
The Mysterious Being in the Ring

The Mysterious Being in the Ring

by | Aug 28, 2022

In the House of Tom Bombadil C.R. Wiley. Canon Press, 2021. Paper, 128 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, but what is the point of him? He is one of the most enigmatic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,...