Three Cheers for the Quiet Ones
Don’t ignore the beauty and goodness of characters just because they don’t seem impressive or witty.
Literature
Harold Bloom: The Essential American Literary Critic
The late Bloom’s New Age leftist patriotism made him un-cancellable within his own camp.
Beowulf, Bro
The latest 'Beowulf' translation begins with the word "bro."
Friends and Letters
A review of Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis, by Gina Dalfonzo.
The Immortal Dracula
Why Bram Stoker’s vampire tale endures, despite its flaws.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Life & Loves in a Moving New Biography
A review of Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Nicholas A. Basbanes.
Remember Books—Reading On-Screen Is Not the Same
Once I went from book to book, article to article. Now I hop from page to page, paragraph to paragraph; screen to screen, image to image.
Ray Bradbury: What He Foresaw
With its twin visions of a pastoral past and a sterile, anti-culture future, Bradbury’s work remains timely a century after his birth.
Love the Past: Alan Jacobs in New Book on the Value of Reading the Classics
A review of Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind, by Alan Jacobs.
Bored Book
Ibram Kendi’s board book, Antiracist Baby, had a telling effect on my son.