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Spark’s Chance Grace

Christopher J. Scalia

Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Sparkby alan taylorpolygon, 244 pages, $18.95 Muriel Spark Centenary Editionsby muriel spark polygon, 4,156 pages, £219.78 A Good Comb: The Sayings of...

Can Conservatives be at Home on Campus?

Christopher J. Scalia

Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive Universityby jon a. shields and joshua m. dunn sr.oxford, 256 pages, $29.95 About ten years ago, a curious call for...

Fashion Statements

Christopher J. Scalia

Wishing our words were tactile,we speak of them like textiles: Dressed-up tales are madeout of whole cloth. A fibber fabricatesas if his lie were a linen. Text is cut...