Every Line Read Is a Gain
The Unforgivable and Other Writings By Cristina Campo. Translated from the Italian by Alex Andriesse. Introduction by Kathryn Davis. New York Review Books Classics, 2024. Paperback, 288 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Fr. Joseph Hudson. There is an image near the...
Letters of a Literary Legend
The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom Edited by Heather Cass White. Yale University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 248 pages, $30. Reviewed by Oliver Spivey. Harold Bloom (1930-2019), with his preternaturally expansive intellect, stocked with...
Shakespeare and the Art of Reading
Shakespeare’s Scholars: Three Lessons From the Liberal Arts By Sean Keilen. Princeton University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 184 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. “What we need are places, i.e., a table with some chairs around it, in which we can learn again to...
A Collection of Children’s Stories That Transcends the Usual Fare
Sir Biscuit Butterworth and Other Short Stories, Poems, and Fables By Paul Krause. Resource Publications, 2026. Paperback, 66 pages, $9. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. These days, turning kids into readers during the formative years of elementary school is a real...
Very grateful to have been awarded one of this year's Richard D. McLellan Prizes. The @KirkCenter's support for my historical work on First Amendment litigation, as well the scholarship of the other honorees, including Eugene Volokh (@HooverInst), is invaluable.
Don't miss meeting and hearing from our new Free Speech Fellows in person! Along with special guests on November 19 at the National Press Club.