John Wilson

In 2020, we are not that far removed from the early era of professional baseball in America, no matter how much the game has changed over the decades. Continue Reading »

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 »