An Unsettling Sense of Justice
A Glooming Peace This Morning By Allen Mendenhall. Livingston Press, 2023. Paperback, 130 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joshua S. Fullman. Justice is a term frequently and haphazardly tossed around in contemporary parlance. Rather than rooted in the rich heritage of...
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...
Today is the 4th anniversary of @ubookman editor Gerald Russello. Please pray for him.
@KirkCenter is sponsoring its annual Russello Lecture on 12/8 at FordhamU in NYC. @JamesPanero to speak on Russell Kirk's "urbanity." More info and registration here:
