John Wilson

Going through stacks of old magazines, newspaper articles, publishers’ catalogues, and more filled me with a sense of the mystery of time. Continue Reading »

Planning ahead with an eye toward potential catastrophe is a much-needed antidote to both despair and the presentism bedeviling much of our public discourse. Continue Reading »

Maybe one of these books will turn out to entrance you, or at least beguile you for a while. Continue Reading »

The historical overview offered by Elcott et al. is inadequate and misleading. Continue Reading »

American evangelicals as described by Enright for readers of the NYRB are worth a few minutes of your attention. Continue Reading »

DeSilva has written one of the most interesting “science books” I’ve read in the last five years and one of the most interesting “walking books” over the same span. Continue Reading »

Some thoughts on a recent biography of baseball legend Cool Papa Bell.
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A new book of conversations between Samuel Wells and Stanley Hauerwas discusses the role of theology in the lives of ordinary Christians. Continue Reading »

The deep fallibility of the hero keeps The Emperor's Sword from seeming morally simplistic and self-satisfied. Continue Reading »

There are so many books to instruct and divert us, miming Creation itself in their gratuitous abundance. Continue Reading »