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2024: Our Year in Books

R. R. Reno Carl R. Trueman Mark Bauerlein Dan Hitchens Valerie Stivers Peter J. Leithart John Byron Kuhner

R. R. Reno I was in a Goodwill in Denver when my eyes fell upon a paperback Penguin edition of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. I bought it, and while...

Stay in My Heart

Valerie Stivers

On a spring day seven years ago I was driving across Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn feeling unusually right with the world. I felt peaceful and uplifted because I...

The Road to Stella Maris

Valerie Stivers

When Cormac McCarthy died in June at age eighty-nine, the news touched off grief and adulation such as contemporary literary authors rarely inspire. Musicians, scientists, conservatives, Catholics, all have...