Reading Dante on His Terms
Love’s Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation By Andrew Frisardi. Angelico Press, 2020. Paperback, 272 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Ethan McGuire. Dante Alighieri, the Supreme Poet, was an intellectual and a member of the elite of his time, albeit not always in...
These Roman Things
David Jones and Rome: Reimagining the Decline of Western Civilization by Jasmine Hunter Evans. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 432 pages, $115. Reviewed by Adam Schwartz. In 1964, poet-painter David Jones lamented changes underway in the Roman Catholic...
Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change
Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789 by E. Wesley Reynolds III. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Cloth, 264 pages, $115.00. Reviewed by James E. Person Jr. Near the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson famously referred to coffee as “the favorite drink of the...
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?...
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