A Contemporary Literary Work of the Moral Imagination
The Professor’s Dog and Other Stories By David B. Schock. PenUltimate, Ltd., 2022. Paperback, 155 pages, $11.95. Reviewed by Jonathan R. Eller. David B. Schock’s wide-ranging career as a newspaper editor, filmmaker, and non-fiction author draws inspiration from a...
Cormac McCarthy’s Historical Literary Influences
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds By Bryan Giemza. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Hardcover, 184 pages, $100. Reviewed by Philip D. Bunn. Works of scholarship on art, literature, or poetry can take multiple forms. One form might be scholarship...
Every Mann
Thomas Mann: New and Selected Stories By Thomas Mann. Translated by Damion Searls. Liveright, 2023. Hardcover, 256 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Joshua Hren. Thomas Mann towers intimidatingly over the twentieth century’s literary landscape, not least because “the icy...
The Duty of the Craftsman: Beauty and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger and Stella Maris. By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Reviewed by Brent Walter Cline. This essay is part of a symposium on the work of Cormac McCarthy. At the end of Cormac McCarthy’s last novel, the main character Alicia...
"How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death" by @ecgoligher, MD.
Reviewed by @pricerobertg. @LexhamPress
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