The famed Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins (the stereotype of every author’s favorite editor) once said that out of all the authors he worked with – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and more), only one never needed editing. That was Willard Huntington Wright, aka S.S. Van Dine, creator of the Philo Vance mysteries. Ragnar Jonasson at CrimeReads takes a look at the author, creator of one of the most famous fictional detectives of the Golden Age of Mystery.
Imperial Russia, for the last 30 years of its life, experienced a rather curious reality: as terrorism and sadistic murder of government officials and citizens escalated, the country’s elites were increasingly supporter of the terrorists. When the collapse finally arrived during World War I, the elites soon discovered what 30 years of adulation and support really meant. Read Gary Saul Morson at First Things Magazine on “Suicide of the Liberals.”
If I kept a list of favorite authors, Frederick Buechner would be way up high on it. The author of the novels Brendan,Godric, and The Storm, and non-fiction like The Magnificent Defeat, A Room Called Remember, Now and Then, and so many more, died this past week at age 96. Buechner told great stories, both real and fictional. At Faith & Leadership, L. Roger Owens describes what he learned about storytelling from Buechner.
More Good Reads
Art
Whistler in the East End – Spitalfields Life.
Writing and Literature
Middlemarch Marriages: The fraught marriages of George Eliot’s novel point to a better definition of love and sainthood – Sarah Clarkson at Plough Quarterly.
Piers Plowman and the Possibilities of Poetry – Andrew Roycroft at The Rabbit Room.
Life and Culture
The West is homeless: We're no longer willing to sacrifice our desires – Paul Kingsnorth at UnHerd.
The Most Elusive Knowledge: Knowing What You Don’t Know – Aaron Earls at The Wardrobe Door.
The Elite Panic of 2022 – Martin Gurri at CityJournal.
Salman Rushdie and the Social Media Fatwa – Carl Trueman at First Things Magazine.
Why I Left Academia (Since You Were Wondering) – William Deresiewicz at Quillette.
Poetry
Scallop Shell – Grace Schulman at Literary Matters.
Ukraine
“No freedom in these ruins:” Four poems of war – Marianna Kiyanovska at Literary Hub.
Ukraine is convinced that time is on its side. So is Russia – Daniel DePetris at The Spectator.
Ukrainian Seminary President: 400 Baptist Churches Gone – Diana Chandler at Christianity Today Magazine.
A young Russian soldier has written a scathing account of Putin’s inept war – Jonny Diamond at Literary Hub.
Faith
7 Reasons Why the Gospel of John is So Special – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.
Never Shop on an Empty Soul – D. Eaton at Fight of Faith.
Your Love – Dulce Pontes, Once Upon a Time in the West by Ennio Morricone
Illustration: An Old Man Reading, etching and drypoint on laid paper (1642) by Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680).
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