I recently reviewed The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis. It’s a fine book, and it tells the story of how T.S. Eliot wrote what is considered the most influential poem of the 20th century. Literary Hub has published an excerpt, one that focuses on Eliot’s use of a typewriter.
Fred Skupthorp at The Critic Magazine in Britain writes about the Ukrainians returning to their recaptured city of Kharkiv. The first thing they’re learning: nothing will ever be the same again. And as Josef Joffe at American Purpose points out, this isn’t the first time Russia waged a war of destruction on Ukraine.
Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder looks at New Testament history, and he realizes something that most of us have forgotten about or taken for granted. Read “A Forgotten Fact about the Earliest Christian Movement.”
More Good Reads
Life and Culture
Can Capitalism Save Hollywood? – Joel Kotkin at CityJournal.
Capsule Summaries of All Twitter Files Threads to Date, with Links and a Glossary – Matt Taibbi.
How to Latch a Gate – Brian Miller at A South Roane Agrarian.
A Puritanical Assault on the English Language – Andrew Doyle at Quillette.
Homeschooling is a Better Offense than Defense – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
Ukraine
All is Not Quiet on the Eastern Front – Niall Ferguson at Bloomberg.
Democracy’s Trenches: The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken – John Lloyd at Quillette.
Writing and Literature
The Relief and Conflict of the Reading Life – Grace Hill at Story Warren.
Children’s Books from 100 Years Ago – Sherry Early at Semicolon.
Faith
Stream Off – Brad East at Mere Orthodoxy.
When I Die Young (or Old) – Vanessa Le at Gentle Reformation.
Chinese Pastors Can Teach You What Calvin Can’t – Hannah Nation at The Gospel Coalition.
What I Want from a Church – Tim Challies.
Poetry
Elegy for an Unremarkable Man – Shaun Duncan at Society of Classical Poets.
American Stuff
Moving Power: Huck Finn, James Madison, and the Currents of History – Connor Mullins at The Millions.
When We Pray – Citizens
Painting: Don Quixote Reading, oil on canvas (circa 1866) by Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879).
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