All That’s Left is This Foundation Stone

All That’s Left is This Foundation Stone

The Commonwealth: Poems By Dan Rattelle. Little Gidding Press, 2022. Paperback, 34 pages, $9.99. Reviewed by Joshua Hren. Wordsworth’s complaint in the Lyrical Ballads Preface (1800) might well have been written last Tuesday at 2:00 a.m. (lost already among too many...
The Mysterious Being in the Ring

The Mysterious Being in the Ring

In the House of Tom Bombadil C.R. Wiley. Canon Press, 2021. Paper, 128 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, but what is the point of him? He is one of the most enigmatic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,...
Indignity Human (and Poetic?)

Indignity Human (and Poetic?)

Minor Indignities: A Novel.  By Trevor Cribben Merrill. Wiseblood Books, 2020. Paperback, 233 pages, $16.00. Reviewed by Alex Taylor. Reading Trevor Cribben Merrill’s first novel, Minor Indignities, one finds a fictional analogue to William F. Buckley’s God and Man at...
The White Guard: Life Imitating Art, Yet Again

The White Guard: Life Imitating Art, Yet Again

by Dwight Sutherland, Jr. Seldom does one encounter a novel which offers such insight into today’s events. This is particularly true when the novel is based on events that happened over a century ago.  Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian author who was born in Kiev in...