Et in Arcadia Ego
Fret Not By Michael Shindler. Finishing Line Press, 2024. Paperback, 40 pages, $17.99. Reviewed by Dan Rattelle. A first look at Fret Not quickly reveals that its author, Michael Shindler, does not have an MFA. Good. Absent is any sort of knowing irony in its deeply...
Making It Home
Exile’s Journey By Jeffrey Bilbro. Little Gidding Press, 2024. Paperback, 64 pages, $11. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. In my recent contemplations about literature, I have been struck by the mundanity and profundity that often simultaneously accompany the act of reading....
Sister Mariella Gable: Pioneer and Prophet
A Theology of Fiction By Cassandra Nelson. Wiseblood Books, 2025. Paperback, 116 pages, $10. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. A bit north and then west of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, one can stumble across an unincorporated community called...
To Awaken the Uneasy Sleeper: New Vistas on Russell Kirk’s Fiction
The Wizard of Mecosta: Russell Kirk, Gothic Fiction, and the Moral Imagination By Camilo Peralta. Vernon Press, 2024. Hardcover, 222 pages, $78.00. Reviewed by James E. Person Jr. The late Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was one of the wisest yet humblest of men one could...
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This was a fun book to read and review--many thanks to @ubookman for publishing! Link here: https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/bring-back-the-virtues-medieval-style/?mc_cid=3ec1588892&mc_eid=0f1acafa9e