A Prodigal Search for Self and the South
Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South By Rick Bragg. Knopf, 2020. Hardcover, 256 pages, $26.95 Reviewed by Owen Edwards Where I Come From by Rick Bragg was published a few months before Uprooted by Grace Olmstead, and has strong resonances with it. Bragg’s...
Scruton Makes His Case
Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism Edited by Mark Dooley. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $28. Reviewed by John G. Grove How should the conservative respond to a time in which so much seems to be lost?...
Back to the Pro-Life Future
Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade by Daniel K. Williams. Oxford University Press, 2016. Hardcover, 380 pages, $35.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. “Before you know it,” commented NARAL president Lee Gilding in 1973, days after the...
The Odyssey of ‘The Godfather’
Leave The Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of the Godfather By Mark Seal. Gallery Books, 2021. Hardback, 448 pages, $29. Reviewed by Paul Krause I believe in the Godfather. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is, possibly, my favorite film. I say...
Writing, Teaching, Virtues
On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts by William Germano. University of Chicago Press, 2021. Paperback, 208 pages, $20. Reviewed by David Hein William Germano, a seasoned teacher and writer who has served as editor-in-chief at Columbia University Press and...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.