Faith, Fiction, Friends

  Great Books and the Good Life  – Peter Sikkema at Comment.   My plea to English students: Read the canon  – Henry Oliver at The Common Rea...

London’s ice cream wars  – Jim Warerson, David Hall, and Polly Smythe at London Centric.  The Other Side (of sad stories)  – Glenn McCarty a...

A Realist Outline of History  – Joseph Woodard at The Imaginative Conservative.  Why Read? Reading, print culture & liberal democracy  –...

Revolting England  – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.   Not-so-bookish thoughts about book clubs  – Kelly Belmonte at Bandersn...

  Reading is magic  – Sam Kriss at Numb at the Lodge.  Tales from the road: The dead of Falling Waters, a forgotten Gettysburg Campaign batt...

Back in 2007, spent a week in Williamsburg. I was biking a lot at that time, and I was able to rent a bike at a local shop. I biked the hist...

Our Children Need Stories: The Power of Fiction in Forming the Heart  – Betsy Howard at Desiring God.  The Dynamism of Growth: William Kent ...

There was a thing last week, I think somewhere on Substack, about “10 books that changed my life.” I tried to find the specific article agai...

Booknotes: Massacre at St. Louis  – Civil War Books and Authors.   Poet Laura: Chicken Dreams  – Michelle Rinaldi Ortega at Tweetspeak Poetr...

A little over three years ago, I read a rather startling book by Martin Gurri. Entitled The Revolt of the Public, it was a revision of an ea...

My story connected to the Civil War has passed the 70,000-word mark, and the ending is in sight. I’m not sure when it was that I realized I ...

I read a lot of e-books. Reviewing poetry for   Tweetspeak Poetry   means I’m read a lot of collections in pdf or e-book formats. Reviewing ...

For a few years before 2022, I’d been occasionally reading about the American Civil War. It’s something I grew up with; my grandparents were...

Years ago, in 1980 to be exact, I read a collection of letters between C.S. Lewis and his long-time friend Arthur Greeves, entitled  Th...

I was an early reader. I don’t recall how early, but I do remember riding my red bicycle to the dime store when I was six, to spend 59 ...

In the past week, I’ve read a biography of Gino Bartoli, the Italian cycling champion; two novellas by noir detective writer Dashiell H...

The moral collapse of the West seems to proceed apace; medical ethicists at Oxford University argue that there is just as much reason t...