To Find Eyes to See

To Find Eyes to See

More Than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature By Joshua Hren. Word on Fire Luminor, 2026. Paperback, 392 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. The year after Euripides died (406 BC), Athenian theater-goers who flocked to see...
The Midwestern Gothic Stories of Eric Cyr

The Midwestern Gothic Stories of Eric Cyr

Here It Snows in June & Other Stories By Eric Cyr. Wiseblood Books, 2026. Paperback, 156 pages, $16. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A driver on I-71 who takes the exit toward Ashland, Ohio, my home now for nearly three years, will be greeted with an oversized welcome...
Yearning and Collapsing

Yearning and Collapsing

Blue Walls Falling Down By Joshua Hren Angelico Press, 2024. Paperback, 436 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr.  Can love reconcile America’s partisan divide between left and right, between racially obsessed identity politics and radicalized nativist...
Shakespeare Forever

Shakespeare Forever

Thinking Through Shakespeare By David Womersley. Princeton University Press, 2026.  Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In England ideas run wild and pasture on emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our...