On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books by karen swallow prior brazos, 272 pages, $19.99 In On Reading Well, Liberty University English professor Karen Swallow Prior sets forth a thoughtful, nuanced vision of the relationship between morality and literature. This vision . . . . Continue Reading »
The village idiot of the shtetl of Frampol was offered the job of waiting at the village gates to greet the arrival of the Messiah. “The pay isn’t great,” he was told, “but the work is steady.” The same might be said about the conditions of the bookish life: low pay but steady . . . . Continue Reading »
We need a new kind of literary culture in which criticism and analysis can finally thrive: one that lives with and loves books for their “hidden gifts.” Continue Reading »
A review of Donald Hall’s A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety. Continue Reading »
Nicholas Wolterstorff and Paul Willis both subvert the institution of high art. Continue Reading »
A recommendation for Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip. Continue Reading »
The junior fellows reflect on Vittoria Colonna and contemporary fiction. Continue Reading »
After The Right Stuff got me going on Tom Wolfe, it was impossible to stop. Continue Reading »
Like a scholastic, Dr. Johnson divides lovers of rustic solitude into subspecies. Continue Reading »
We live in an era of upheaval, not only in the American church, but in the American republic. Continue Reading »
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