John Wilson

Suffice it to say that we’re not likely, anytime soon, to run out of books (new and old alike) worth reading and sharing with others. Continue Reading »

The fly is a wonderfully improbable prompt for Bob Hudson's reflections in The Poet and the Fly.  Continue Reading »

In Island of the Innocent, Diane Glancy writes as a seer, but one who is very down-to-earth.  Continue Reading »

Readers whose own sense of time leads to the biblical God will find much to chew on in Joseph Mazur’s The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time. Continue Reading »

Your appreciation of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry may be deepened by Catherine Randall’s concise and empathetic account.  Continue Reading »

David Ignatius’s The Paladin tells a compelling story that (among other things) gives the worn-out phrase “fake news” a new urgency. Continue Reading »

A “vast carelessness” is the source of many of our ills. Continue Reading »

There is always a danger, when we visit the past, of seeing what we want to see or what we expect to see. Continue Reading »

Phil Christman’s Midwest Futures is short, cunningly constructed while seemingly casual, and rich with strange lore. Continue Reading »

Michael Connelly is a historian of the present, telling us what is “happening” with immediacy and imaginative depth through his crime novels.   Continue Reading »