Thinking Through Shakespeare By David Womersley. Princeton University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In England ideas run wild and pasture on emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our...
Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination By Mark Vernon Hurst, 2025. Hardcover, 312 pages, $37.99. Reviewed by Paul Krause. William Blake’s name is synonymous with mad genius. In his time, as in ours, he had a reputation for being a crazy...
Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment By Robert P. George. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 414 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by R. McKay Stangler. The first question, and perhaps the most pressing one when reviewing a book by Robert P....
FDR: A New Political Life By David T. Beito. Open Universe, 2025. Paperback, 284 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Did the presidency of Herbert Hoover and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt actually prolong what today might be remembered as the “panic of...
Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood By Alexander Voloshin. Translated by Boris Dralyuk. Paul Dry Books, 2026. Paperback, 98 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. When my oldest son was little, every Saturday morning I would bundle him into the car for the hour and a...
God, The Science, The Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution By Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies. Palomar, 2025. Hardcover, 562 pages, $28.00. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. There has been a pendulum swing in the science world. The claims that most scientists are...