John Wilson

If in due course you happen to pick up and read any of these titles, I’d love to hear back from you. Happy reading. Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Sewell’s classic study of Lewis Carroll, “The Field of Nonsense,” sheds light on the allure of baseball. Continue Reading »

 I don’t know for sure what the future, even the “near future,” holds, but I do know that—for the moment, at least—we do not remotely live in a “secular age.” Continue Reading »

In a new book, Jeremy Black challenges patronizing conceptions of Agatha Christie as a “cozy” writer, drawing out the Anglican sensibility that undergirds her work. Continue Reading »

We share the astonishing convictions and hopes that have sustained the faithful for 2,000 years, extravagant as they sometimes seem, all too often distorted by misguided believers, and yet as compelling today as they were to the first Christians. Continue Reading »

I often feel great disjunction between my own experience of prayer and what many people say about it—not only in books, but in conversation, in church, and in many other settings. Continue Reading »

Let us resolve, in this new year, to push back against the fashionable narrative that our society is more divided than ever. Continue Reading »

Talking about “the future” quite naturally involves talking about “the past.” Continue Reading »

There are so many books that are not “great,” but are still worth saving from oblivion, at least for the moment. Brian Moore’s work falls into this category. Continue Reading »

John Wilson recaps his year in reading, chronicling the books that stand out the most. Continue Reading »