Of Man and Lost Time
The Twilight World: A Novel By Werner Herzog. Translated by Michael Hofmann. Penguin Press, 2022. Hardcover, 144 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González. Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese Imperial Army soldier who did not accept that Japan surrendered on September 2,...
St. Thomas Aquinas With a Southern Drawl
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: We Need It
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...
Troublesome Corporeality: Mysticism, Gnosticism, and Sacramentality in The Rabbit Hutch
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 Last God’s Dream,” while certainly among the more daring of Kirk’s “experiments in the moral imagination”(as he described his literary efforts), is also one of the more successful at blending the author’s varied interests in politics, history, literature, and metaphysics.
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