Jerome’s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning Introduction and Translation by David G. Bonagura, Jr. Sophia Institute Press, 2023. Paperback, 128 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. The death of a loved one can be wrenchingly painful. It is during such a...
Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt—Paul Elmer More Correspondence Edited by Eric Adler. University of Missouri Press, 2023. Hardcover, 488 pages, $75. Reviewed by Justin D. Garrison. In The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk observes, “it is an ominous sign for any...
The Twilight World: A Novel By Werner Herzog. Translated by Michael Hofmann. Penguin Press, 2022. Hardcover, 144 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González. Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese Imperial Army soldier who did not accept that Japan surrendered on September 2,...
The Tragedy of Orpheus and the Maenads By David Lane. Arouca Press, 2023. Paperback, 118 pages, $14.95. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bittner. David Lane’s latest work, The Tragedy of Orpheus and the Maenads, is a masterful retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and...
Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America By Anthony B. Bradley. Wipf and Stock, 2023. Paperback, 222 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jared Zimmerer. “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men....
Understanding The Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art By Fr. Damian Ference. Word on Fire, 2023. Paperback, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. By her own admission, Flannery O’Connor was...
The Geography of the Peace at Eighty---Francis P. Sempa reflects on a nearly century old classic by @Yale Prof. Nicholas John Spykman. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944.