Before he wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, author A.A. Milne wrote a locked-room murder mystery, The Red House Mystery. It was a tremendous success and was considered so good that even noir writer Raymond Chandler used it as a case study in his 1944 essay “The Simple Art of Murder.” Olivia Rutigliano at CrimeReads has the story.
Before he was a poet writer of futuristic, rather dystopian novels, Paul Kingsnorth (Beast, The Wake) was a protesting environmentalist. He spends considerable time these days writing at The Abbey of Misrule on Substack about “the machine” – the system of business, technology, culture, and politics which is teetering right now (even if “the machine” doesn’t realize it, yet). I follow his articles because Kingsnorth is always worth reading; he offers insights and ideas you really don’t find elsewhere. Jeffrey Bilbro at Front Porch Republic talked with Kingsnorth about culture, technology, the environment, writing, and more.
Thursday was Veterans Day in the United States and known as Remembrance Day in Britain and Canada. Malcolm Guite wrote a sonnet for Remembrance Day, while Patrick Barrow at The Critic Magazine reminded us that freedom is never free.
More Good Reads
Life and Culture
On Seeking Continuity in History – Michael De Sapio at The Imaginative Conservative.
Public Health After Christendom – J. Chase Davis at Mere Orthodoxy.
Poetry
Poetry matters – Joe Nutt at The Critic Magazine.
You Can’t Explain the World Without Poetry – Seth Lewis.
Fallen from Eden: Reading the Poetry of Catullus – Paul Krause at Front Porch Republic.
Faith
One Unintended Side Effect of Isolation and 3 Questions God is Still Asking – Michael Kelley at Forward Progress.
A Monument of Gift – Tim Suffield at Nuakh.
Gardens of Eden: The church forests of Ethiopia – Kieran Dodds at The Guardian.
Writing and Literature
Tom Bombadil in Narnia – Louis Markos at The Imaginative Conservative.
Portraits of Anxiety in Dostoevsky and Dickens – Daniel Dorman at Mere Orthodoxy.
The Power of Sibling Bonds in The Brothers Karamazov – Ena Alvarado at JSTOR Daily.
What Novelists Can Learn from Poets – Kyle Lucia Wu at Literary Hub.
British Stuff
Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe, It Was… Kind of a Dump – Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen at Literary Hub.
American Stuff
The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution – H.W. Brands at CrimeReads.
Almost Home – Matt Papa & Matt Boswell
Painting: Woman Reading in a Garden, oil on canvas by Henri Lebasque (1865-1937).
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