A Contemporary Literary Work of the Moral Imagination

A Contemporary Literary Work of the Moral Imagination

by | Oct 29, 2023

The Professor’s Dog and Other Stories  By David B. Schock. PenUltimate, Ltd., 2022. Paperback, 155 pages, $11.95. Reviewed by Jonathan R. Eller.  David B. Schock’s wide-ranging career as a newspaper editor, filmmaker, and non-fiction author draws inspiration from a...
Cormac McCarthy’s Historical Literary Influences

Cormac McCarthy’s Historical Literary Influences

by | Oct 15, 2023

Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds  By Bryan Giemza. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Hardcover, 184 pages, $100. Reviewed by Philip D. Bunn. Works of scholarship on art, literature, or poetry can take multiple forms. One form might be scholarship...
Two Cities: The Public and the Private

Two Cities: The Public and the Private

by | Oct 15, 2023

A reflection on Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities By Igor Damous. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every...
Reading as a Spiritual Practice

Reading as a Spiritual Practice

by | Sep 10, 2023

Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual Practice By Jessica Hooten Wilson. Brazos Press, 2023. Hardcover, 208 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by James E. Hartley. “Until very recent years, civilized folk took it for granted that literature exists to form the...
Every Mann

Every Mann

by | Jul 9, 2023

Thomas Mann: New and Selected Stories By Thomas Mann. Translated by Damion Searls. Liveright, 2023. Hardcover, 256 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Joshua Hren. Thomas Mann towers intimidatingly over the twentieth century’s literary landscape, not least because “the icy...