A Flawed and Fascinating Man
Diary 1954 by Leopold Tyrmand. Northwestern University Press, 2014. Paperback, 400 pages, $28.A few months ago, a small piece of history arrived in the post. It was a window that allowed us to catch a glimpse of the world of the Polish People’s Republic: Diary 1954,...Books in Little: Austen’s Catholic Landscapes
Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred Landscape by Roger E. Moore. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2016. Hardcover, x + 167 pages, $149.95Since Marilyn Butler’s Jane Austen and the War of Ideas appeared in 1975 there has been much written about Miss...Unwearying Aphorisms
Doublethink/Doubletalk: Naturalizing Second Thoughts & Twofold Speech by Eva Brann. Paul Dry Books, 2016. Paper, 311 pages, $20.In many ways, our civilization seems weary, lacking a youthful confidence in its principles and promises. Perhaps no institution...Where Love Lies Corrupt
Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror by Waller R. Newell. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Hardcover, 264 pages, $30. Russell Kirk, writing in Prospects for Conservatives, described what enlightened conservatives know but the tyrant does not: that love...
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