The Other Greek Woman

The Other Greek Woman

Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics, Second Edition By Nancy Felson.  Harvard University Press, 2025.  Hardcover, 220 pages, $24.95.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. Until the recent fascination with Cleopatra VII, Helen of Sparta / Troy has been the most readily...
Following Dante’s Footsteps

Following Dante’s Footsteps

Dante’s Footsteps: Poems and Reflections on Poetry By Paul Krause. Stone Tower Press, 2025. Paperback, 104 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Raleigh Adams. Dante’s Footsteps, a new collection of poems and reflections from Paul Krause, offers a winding and artful overview of...
Suicide Narratives and the Goodness of Being

Suicide Narratives and the Goodness of Being

Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature By Martin Lockerd. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 196 pages, $27. Reviewed by John Ehrett.  Around the world, assisted suicide—now going under the perverse euphemism “MAID,” or “Medical Assistance In Dying”—has become a...
The Case Against Buckley

The Case Against Buckley

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America By Sam Tanenhaus.  Random House, 2025.  Hardcover, 1040 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by James Panero. Less than a mile separates the Catholic cemetery of Saint Bernard, the burial site of William F. Buckley Jr., off...
Beyond Stoicism

Beyond Stoicism

After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher  By Thomas M. Ward. Word on Fire Academic, 2024. Hardcover, 216 pages, $34.95. 365 Lessons from the Stoics  By Andrea Kirk Assaf. William Collins, 2024. Hardcover, 256 pages, $19.19 Reviewed by Father Joseph...
Aliens to Life

Aliens to Life

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World By Christine Rosen. W.W. Norton and Co., 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by J. Camden Kidwell. Eighteen years have passed since Steve Jobs released a device capable of putting cyberspace...