Arts & Letters
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Your Grandmother’s Verse
She writes it with a quill pen, so they say,On cream-smooth vellum (paper she refuses).A photo of…
Briefly Noted
The Thriving Society: On the Social Conditions of Human Flourishingedited by james r. stoner jr. and harold…
Double Ballade for History Repeated: Part One
Though sinners’ souls are shriven clear,the ravished aren’t restored.The Good News turns to Bad News nearthe raped,…
Double Ballade for History Repeated: Part Two
Too long, I too withheld my earfrom “slanderers” who pouredout tales of victimhood to smearthe servants of…
The Green and the Brown
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warningby timothy snydertim duggan books, 462 pages, $30 F aced…
Trigger Warnings and Academic Consumerism
I have been reading a lot of back-and-forth about “trigger warnings” lately. Students who see themselves as…
Easter is not a Question Mark
Excavating my desk recently, I found the program notes from a Tallis Scholars concert my wife and…
Awakenings
The following is being delivered at Brigham Young University today, March 22, 2016. I’m here today because…
Haven’t an Inkling
Charles Williams: The Third Inklingby grevel lindopoxford, 464 pages, $34.95 C harles Williams (1886–1945) was a cult…
Monument to Failure
The General Services Administration, together with the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office, has determined that one of…
Reformer’s Life
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformerby scott h. hendrixyale, 368 pages, $35 Luther on the Christian Life: Cross and…
The Loving Intellect
What does it mean to be an intellectual? The word comes from the Latin word for understanding,…
Briefly Noted
Saint Aldhelm’s Riddlestranslated by a. m. justertoronto, 173 pages, $29.95 The riddle of Samson’s strength, the riddle…
Books of 2015
We suffer nowadays from a surfeit of literary anniversaries. One blurs into the next until we begin…
Declaiming Homer
The Iliad translated by peter green university of california, 608 pages, $29.95 A translator of Homer is…
