Understanding The Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art By Fr. Damian Ference. Word on Fire, 2023. Paperback, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. By her own admission, Flannery O’Connor was...
The Novel: Who Needs It? By Joseph Epstein. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 152 pages, $25.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. There are few books of literary criticism in recent years that are clearly written, free of jargon, and not weighted down by one sort or another...
The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel By Tess Gunty. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 352 pages, $28. Reviewed by Jeffrey Wald. Although I dislike identity politics, I must admit that when it comes to literature, I love to camp with my own tribe. In other words, I have a particular...
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...
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...
Transmitting Western Civilization Through Education--@darrellfalconbu reviews "On Being Civilized: A Few Lines Amid the Breakage" by Tracy Lee Simmons.
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The Divine Inspiration of Handel’s Messiah---Rev. Dr. Karl C. Schaffenburg on "Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah" by Charles King. @doubledaybooks