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...
Restocking Conservatives’ Bookshelves

Restocking Conservatives’ Bookshelves

13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read) By Christopher J. Scalia. Regnery, 2025. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Earlier this summer, The New York Times published yet another jeremiad on fiction-reading men going the way...
Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy

Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy

The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy By Vereen M. Bell. Louisiana State University Press, 1988/2023. Paperback, 160 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Michael Yost. “I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion...
An Unsettling Sense of Justice

An Unsettling Sense of Justice

A Glooming Peace This Morning By Allen Mendenhall.  Livingston Press, 2023.  Paperback, 130 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joshua S. Fullman. Justice is a term frequently and haphazardly tossed around in contemporary parlance. Rather than rooted in the rich heritage of...