Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry By Robert Kanigel. Knopf, 2021. Hardcover, 336 pages, $28.95. Reviewed by J. L. Wall. It can be difficult to escape the image of Homer as blind bard and near-inventor of human literature. Just glance at...
Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020 By Ryan Wilson. Franciscan University Press, 2021. Paper, 224 pages, $15.00. Reviewed by Patrick Callahan. Ryan Wilson’s new collection of verse translations, Proteus Bound, dazzles when you try to grasp it. The whole...
By Anika T. Prather “I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the Flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” —Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” African Americans have always dreamed of another world. We have...
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $35. Reviewed by Jessica Hooten Wilson We’ve become accustomed to the “battle” language with regards to the...
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $35. Reviewed by Pavlos Papadopoulos Eric Adler’s Battle of the Classics (2020) and Classics, the Culture...
Barry Cooper's review of THE GROWTH OF THE LIBERAL SOUL is available on the @ubookman page at: https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/after-ideology-but-before-the-revolution-the-liberal-soul/
I'm pleased to see the University Bookman running a small symposium on a new book (or a new edition of an old book) by David Walsh, whose work remains essential amidst debates over liberalism. Personally, Walsh's influence has kept me from going full post-liberal.