And After All by Rhina P. Espaillat. Able Muse Press, 2019. Paperback, 130 pages, $20. Reviewed by Midge Goldberg “Without you,” Rhina Espaillat says, “all of time is cut in two.” The best poems in Espaillat’s new book, And After All, are about grief. Espaillat lost...
On Homesickness: A Plea by Jesse Donaldson. Vandalia Press / West Virginia University Press, 2017. Paperback, 250 pages, $18. Reviewed by Jacob A. Bruggeman Robert Frost once wrote of a poem’s beginnings as “a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a...
On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method by Niels Hemmingsen. Translated and edited by E. J. Hutchinson with an introduction by E. J. Hutchinson and Korey D. Maas. CLP Academic, 2018. Hardcover, 252 pages, $30. Reviewed by W. Bradford Littlejohn If I...
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee. Dey Street Books, 2018. Hardcover, 532 pages, $29. Reviewed by Thomas F. Bertonneau For one who knows the subject matter, or who...
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg. Regnery Gateway, 2019. Hardcover, 192 pages, $29. Reviewed by Jason Jewell In “The Blue Cross,” G. K. Chesterton’s first and most famous story about the priest-detective Father Brown, the...
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black Encounter Books, 2019. Hardcover, 216 pages, $26. Reviewed by James Baresel When a book is advertised as a “wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness” one can usually expect that...
For Christians who struggle to articulate why they believe Jesus is the Messiah, Evidence for Christ provides accessible and engaging answers. The result is a work that is both historically informed and theologically rich, offering readers a deeper understanding of why Christians