It’s Halloween, and we have several good reads for the day: Bradley Birzer looks at Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House; Amelia Freidline has a go at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; you can read about “The Witch Hunter Who Helped Shape America’s Witch Trials;” Beth Daley at the Conversation explains where the modern vampire originated, and it’s not where you might think. Joseph Bottum provides the background of Robert Herrick’s poem “The Hag;” And Spitalfields Life takes you on a tour of “The Tombs of Old London.”
There has been an abundance of posts and articles lately about the death of reading, the end of the traditional book, the decline in book sales, and so one. Everyone seems ready to pronounce the death of books as we know them. Not so fast, says Daniel Darling at One Little Word. He makes the case for why paper books will endure.
In the category of “I am not making this up,” Nellie Bowles at The Free Press cited a new report by the United Nations Women organization, “Facts and figures: Women, peace and security.” The big concern: nearly one in four civilian deaths associated with war and violent conflicts around the world are women and girls. The organization also highlighted the statistic with a dramatic graphic on X, formerly known as Twitter. The report does acknowledge, in an offhanded kind of way, that three in four civilian deaths in war and violent conflict are men and boys, but I suppose we need to focus on what’s important.
More Good Reads
America 250
The Sentence That Defines America – M.C. Murphy at The Coolidge Review.
Discovering White Plains – Bert Dunkerly at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Writing and Literature
What Haunted George Orwell – John Miller at The Wall Street Journal (story unlocked).
The flesh and bones of Gulliver’s Travels – David Womersley at Engelberg’s Ideas.
Souls at Stake – Algis Valiunas at First Things Magazine on the Gothic novel.
Have a Plan for Your Writing – Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach.
The Daunting Art of Selling Fewer Books – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.
American Stuff
New Monument Rising: The Gateway Arch Is Completed in 1965 – Jason Clark at Ths Is the Day.
In Defense of Daylight Savings Time – Brevin Anderson at Front Porch Republic.
British Stuff
Descended from Woden: Why Anglo-Saxon Kings Claimed a Pagan God as Their Ancestor – Calogero Nicosia at English Historical Fiction Authors.
Poetry
Reading Emily Dickinson at Hallowtide – LuElla D’Amico at Church Life Journal.
The Famous Christian Poem We’ve Never Heard Of – David Bannon at Front Porch Republic.
“La Belle Dame sans Merci,” poem by John Keats – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Faith
Your Cross – Cody Ilardo at Power & Glory.
What Remains of Our Remains – Emily Carrington at Mere Orthodoxy.
And Can It Be – The Village Chapel Worship
Painting: Man Reading a Letter in His Study, oil on oak panel (circa 1670) by Adriaen Van Ostade (1610-1685).
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