Saturday Good Reads - June 3, 2023

I’ve seen lots of them on Pinterest – old photographs of soldiers, officers, and generals from the Civil War. The generals usually have the same expression – serious and proud. Many of the ones of soldiers show just how young they look, some barely out of boyhood. Sarah Kay Bierle at Emerging Civil War found one of those pictures, and she took a look at the story behind the photograph. 

Ray Bradbury wrote science fiction and similar stories and novels, but his work went beyond the genre. Think of stories like Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradley Birzer at The Imaginative Conservative profiles Bradbury, and how the prolific author became the voice of the space age.

 

Paul Kingsnorth has been writing about what he calls “The Machine,” the scientific-political-social-cultural complex that has come to dominate the world, especially the Western world. He’s been posting a series of essays ion his Substack site, The Abbey of Misrule. His most recent one makes for disturbing and compelling reading: The West must die.

 

More Good Reads

 

Life and Culture

 

Until I Cross Water; or, Hot Boudin, Cold Coush-Coush – Brian Muller at A South Roane Agrarian.

 

RFK Jr. and the Populist Wave – Peter Savodnik at The Free Press. 

 

The Revolt of the Dutch Farmers – Jamie Blackett at The Free Press.

 

The Evil That Haunts Us – TheoLatte.

 

News Media

 

A crime gone tragically wrong: Which crimes go wonderfully right? – Theodore Dalrymple at The Critic Magazine.

 

Has the influencer bubble burst? – Kara Kennedy at The Spectator.

 

Faith

 

Blessings to Impart – Scott Martin at Front Porch Republic.

 

To Surprise Us at the Last Day – Tim Challies.

 

Treading the Path Toward Death – Chris Thomas at The Ploughman’s Rest.

 

The Worthy Work of the Stay-at-Home Mom – Lara d/Entremont at Modern Reformation.

 

Poetry

 

Sounding – Gibson Fay-LeBlanc at Narrative Magazine.

 

Anyway – Seth Lewis.

 

Writing and Literature

 

What 'The Quiet American' by Graham Greene Teaches Us – I.S. Berry at CrimeReads.

 

On the Enduring Power and Relevance of America’s Most Famous WWII Correspondent – David Chrisinger at Literary Hub.

 

Still – Steven Curtis Chapman

 Illustration: Man Reading Letter to a Seated Mourning Woman, Saturday Evening Post illustration, Gouache and watercolor on board – Clarence Underwood (1871-1929).