Faith, Fiction, Friends: Saturday Good Reads

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 20^th 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.