George Saunders on Story
by Joshua HrenFor Saunders, fiction is fundamentally moral.
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Judging by the Cover
by John WilsonThe Look of the Book nudged me repeatedly to hunt in my own shelves and stacks for books the look of which had caught my eye once upon a time. Continue Reading »
A Year of Reading: 2020
by John WilsonA Thanksgiving feast of book recommendations from 2020. Continue Reading »
We Heard a Fly Buzz
by John WilsonThe fly is a wonderfully improbable prompt for Bob Hudson's reflections in The Poet and the Fly. Continue Reading »
Native Americans in the Land of Uz
by John WilsonIn Island of the Innocent, Diane Glancy writes as a seer, but one who is very down-to-earth. Continue Reading »
The Arrow of Time
by John WilsonReaders 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 »
The Joy of Gerard
by John WilsonYour appreciation of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry may be deepened by Catherine Randall’s concise and empathetic account. Continue Reading »
The State of Fictional Espionage
by John WilsonDavid 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 Detective and His Dog
by John WilsonA “vast carelessness” is the source of many of our ills. Continue Reading »
New Faiths of the Self
by Justin LeeThe new religions practiced in post-secular America are selfish, choice-obsessed, therapeutic, and adaptable to expediency. Continue Reading »
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