Saturday Good Reads

Every few years, a new generation of writers ask the eternal questions: how many words for a novel? How about a novella and a short novel (and what’s the difference)? Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft has some answers.

Samuel Sey at Slow to Write is a Black man who is the Community Liaison at the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. He asks (and answers) provocative questions, provocative meaning “countercultural.” And this past week, he asked several in different posts, including “What if a White Police Officer Accidentally Killed Me?” 

The death of Prince Philip in Britain rather unexpectedly raised a perennial question asked in the country on a regular basis, even if the rest of the world (especially Americans) think it’s a dumb idea. And that question is, is it time for the British monarchy to go? Jeremy Black at The Critic has a response. (My own response: yes, it is, if you want to destroy tourism forever.) 

More Good Reads

Writing and Literature

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action – Mark Edmundson at Literary Hub.

Resurrecting Edgar Allan Poe While Continuously Disappointing My Mother – Mindy McGinnis at CrimeReads.

O'Connor or Robinson: The Gargoyle and the Cathedral – Jessica Hooten Wilson at Church Life Journal.

Writing, Still Writing – Jen Bannan at The Millions.

Poetry

How is a sonnet like the suburbs? Both are places of possibility – Elizabeth Lund at Christian Science Monitor.

On the Places and Poetic Forms of the Black Southern Poet – Khalisa Rae at Literary Hub.

A Poem for the 457th Birthday of Shakespeare – Susan Jarvis Bryant at Society of Classical Poets.

I’m Over the American Homer – Benjamin Myers at Front Porch Republic.

Life and Culture

You Have to Read This Letter – Bari Weiss.

Taborian Cultural Competence – Steve Willis at Front Porch Republic.

Faith

A Theology of Free Speech – Brad Littlejohn at The Gospel Coalition.

A Pitch for the Christian Faith – Andrew Wilson at Think Theology.

Reparations: A Critical Theological Review – Kevin DeYoung at The Gospel Coalition.

News Media

The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick's Death. And They Just Got Caught – Glenn Greenwald.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Journalism – David Deavel at The Imaginative Conservative.

American Stuff

The American Revolution: John Paul Jones' 1778 Raid on Whitehaven – Andrew Zellers-Frederick at All Things Liberty.

Death at Antietam: Friends to the End – Carl Schoonover at Emerging Civil War Blog.

The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond – Ella Roberts

Painting: Young Man Reading, oil on panel (ca. 1650) by Jacob van Loo (1614-1670).