Outlining Sanity in the Garden

Outlining Sanity in the Garden

by | Apr 13, 2025

The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity By Carol Deppe. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015. Paperback, 288 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Eric Scheske. American gardening literature is a big thing. Amazon has an...
Challenging the Contraceptive Mind

Challenging the Contraceptive Mind

by | Mar 9, 2025

Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024.  Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99.  Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. “We all come from divorce,” Wendell Berry once said, in an interview in Laura Dunn’s film The...
Challenging the Contraceptive Mind

Motherhood in an Age of Childlessness

by | Mar 9, 2025

Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. In January 2022, Pope Francis struck a nerve during his Wednesday public audience. Noting...
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by | Feb 23, 2025

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa By Anthony Grafton.  Belknap Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 304 pages, $39.95.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. “Dame Frances Yates” is a name that usually does not cross the lips of the educated public. However, in the field of...