Suicide Narratives and the Goodness of Being
Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature By Martin Lockerd. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 196 pages, $27. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Around the world, assisted suicide—now going under the perverse euphemism “MAID,” or “Medical Assistance In Dying”—has become a...
Mark Twain Revisited
Mark Twain By Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2025. Hardcover, 1,200 pages, $45. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Let us stipulate at the outset that Ron Chernow has indeed covered the Twain waterfront in this massive volume. How could he not? Twain appears “Afloat” in Part...
Restocking Conservatives’ Bookshelves
13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read) By Christopher J. Scalia. Regnery, 2025. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Earlier this summer, The New York Times published yet another jeremiad on fiction-reading men going the way...
Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker
The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life and Works of the Crime Writer and Poet By Stephen Wade. Pen & Sword History, 2025. Hardcover, 256 pages, $39.95/£25.00. Reviewed by Adam Schwartz. In 2011, A. N. Wilson numbered Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) among authors...
A great review of my collection of poetry @ubookman which highlights that "poetry has always been about love—about the heavens and the burning passion of the human heart." Read the review, then read and enjoy the music of poetry and let your heart soar!
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/following-dantes-footsteps/