Lofty Prose in a New Translation of Beowulf

Lofty Prose in a New Translation of Beowulf

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Translated by Ben J. Reinhard.  Cluny Media, 2022. Paperback, 278 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Jonathan B. Himes. To describe Ben Reinhard’s approach to his new verse translation of Beowulf, the back cover offers the following keywords:...
Oh Yeah Baby Eat It

Oh Yeah Baby Eat It

Spending the Winter  By Joseph Bottum. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022. Paperback, 80 pages, $13. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. “Do I really want to read this?” “Is this a good way to spend my time?” These are fair questions to ask yourself whenever thinking about...
Cormac McCarthy Symposium

Cormac McCarthy Symposium

The Passenger and Stella Maris.  By Cormac McCarthy.  Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Cormac McCarthy was arguably America’s greatest living novelist. Last week, that ceased to be the case. McCarthy died in his home on Tuesday. In late 2022, McCarthy published...