A Cure For Boredom
Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life By Kevin Hood Gary. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 200 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. Kevin Hood Gary’s book Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and...
Institutionally Preaching the Gospel: The Right Words Are Necessary
Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution by Helen M. Alvaré. The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 256 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Jennie Bradley Lichter. The core conviction and the raison d’être of Helen Alvaré’s excellent book is that...
“To Help Man Endure by Lifting His Heart”: Earl Hamner at 100
By James E. Person Jr. “My grandfather used to say that nobody owns a mountain, but getting born and living and dying in its shadow, we loved Waltons’ Mountain and felt it was ours.” Spoken in the gentle, Southern/Scotch-Irish accent typical of rural Virginia, those...
Knights On a Darkling Plain
Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski Collection Edited by Philip E. Lawler. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 294 pages, $19.95. Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era By Father Robert McTeigue, S.J. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 125...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
@lsheahan, @DavidGBonaguraJ, @darrellfalconbu
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.