How Charlotte Brontë Became Charlotte Brontë

How Charlotte Brontë Became Charlotte Brontë

The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life By Graham Watson. Pegasus, 2025. Hardcover, 288 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Today, everyone knows Charlotte Brontë as the author of Jane Eyre. That wasn’t always the case. During her own lifetime, she had...
C.S. Lewis and Gender Ideology

C.S. Lewis and Gender Ideology

Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis’ Images of Gender By Joshua Phillip Herring. The Davenant Press, 2026. Paperback, 234 pages, $31.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. C.S. Lewis can’t fix everything. It is tempting to try, though. Lewis was a wise and learned...
Forming the American Imagination

Forming the American Imagination

The American Book of Fables By Matthew Mehan. Sophia Institute Press, 2026.  Hardcover, 396 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Shaun Rieley. “If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,” wrote eighteenth-century Scottish political theorist Andrew Fletcher, “he need not...
Finding Faith in Fiction

Finding Faith in Fiction

Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith in Children’s Literature By LuElla D’Amico. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 162 pages, $23. Reviewed by Christine Norvell. A Presbyterian minister told me that many of the young parents in her inner city church...
The Liturgical Key to Tolkien

The Liturgical Key to Tolkien

The High Hallow: Tolkien’s Liturgical Imagination By Ben Reinhard. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2025. Hardcover, 184 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Benjamin J. Volpe. “My living room bookcase has an entire shelf filled with Tolkien’s works and works commenting on Tolkien’s...