British author Hilary Mantel – two-time winner of the Booker Prize – died last week at age 70. She had had a number of physical ailments for most of her life. Her three Wolf Hall books are marvelous stories about Henry VIII and his chief man, Thomas Cromwell. Brian Dillon at The Yale Review remembers Mantel as a singular prose artist.
One vivid childhood memory is my mother taking me to see the Walt Disney movies – Bambi, Dumbo, and Peter Pan, to mention only three. I also remember Pinocchio, the story of the wooden boy brought to life. (For some reason, my favorite character was Jiminy Cricket.) Jeffrey Overstreet at The Rabbit Room remembers Pinocchio, too, and what the story still means to him.
Chris Naffziger is a St. Louis photographer who documents the city’s surviving and not-surviving architecture. Recently, he went on vacation to France, and he took some photos of something most tourists miss – the foundations of the Louvre.
More Good Reads
News Media
Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann at 100 – Andre Forget at The Bulwark.
Life and Culture
The Politicization of the Department of Justice – Harmeet Dhillon at Imprimis / Hillsdale College.
Western governments should blame themselves for the energy crisis – Derrick Berthelsen at The Critic Magazine.
Financial censorship: The new front in the war on free speech – Freddie Attenborough at The Critic Magazine.
Art
Egg Tempera Underpainting of Zechariah 3 & 4 – Jack Baumgartner at The School of the Transfer of Energy.
Writing and Literature
Flowers and Dust: Summer in The Great Gatsby – Michial Farmer at Front Porch Republic.
What Don Quixote Reveal About an Empire at Its Peak – Giles Tremlett at Literary Hub.
Poetry
Say God is the Tough in the Prison Yard – Matthew E. Henry at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).
Faith
When “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” Is All the Logic Left – Justin Pythress at Reformation 21.
The Search for Manly Men of God: A History of Muscular Christianity – Greg Morse at Desiring God.
The Danger of Chronological Snobbery to Discipleship – Michael Kelley at Forward Progress.
Ukraine
Anthony Beevor on How Russia's History Explains Putin and the War in Ukraine – David Kindy at HistoryNet.
Lessons from the brink: We should not be complacent about nuclear war – Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski at The Critic Magazine.
British Stuff
Treasures of Guildhall Library – the library of London History – Isabelle Chevallot at English Historical Fiction Authors.
American Stuff
Fort Harrison: What can a little-known fort teach us? – Bert Dunkerly at Emerging Civil War.
Lauren Daigle - You Say / Sonata Pathétique (Piano/Cello) – The Piano Guys
Painting: Lady on a Sofa, oil on canvas (1910) by Harold Gilman (1876-1919).
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