Charles II By Hilaire Belloc. Mysterium Press, 2026. Hardcover, 252 pages, $24.95. James II By Hilaire Belloc. Mysterium Press, 2026. Hardcover, 264 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. Hilaire Belloc penned an impressive cycle of historical biographies,...
The Screen and the Mirror: What Movies Show Us About Ourselves, the World, and God By Gina Dalfonzo. Cascade Books, 2026. Paperback, 164 pages, $23. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. Like reading classic literature, viewing and studying classic film is a means of examining...
Chateaubriand: Selected Writings Translated by Edward Maxwell III. Imperium Press, 2024. Paperback, 176 pages, $8.50. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand—nobleman, adventurer, poet, and memoirist—a sampling of whose work appears in this...
After Christendom By Michael Warren Davis. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Paperback, 213 pages, $17.89. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. This is a fairly simple book—part polemic and part spiritual manual. Mr. Davis, its author, is best known for his previous work, The...
Meditations on Death: Preparing for Eternity By Thomas à Kempis. Translated by Fr. Robert Nixon, OSB. TAN Books, 2023. Hardcover, 88 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. To scratch an itch of curiosity, I recently entered the word “Death” into the Amazon search...
Letters of a Literary Legend
Oliver Spivey on "The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom" Edited by Heather Cass White. @yalepress
