Faith, Fiction, Friends

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

In Search of Northanger Abbey: Farleigh Hungerford Castle  – Nancy Bilyeau at English Historical Fiction Authors.  At the Zoo  – Adam Smith ...

  Glen Hansard Made Music Feel Alive  – Spencer Klavan at The Free Press.   The Antiquarian Bookshops of Old London  – Spitalfields Life.   ...

  Make do  – poem by Sonja Benskin Mesher.   One Tool to Rule Them All  – Brad Littlejohn at Mere Orthodoxy.   Two Ways of Looking at a Spar...

Rehabilitating Time: Memory & the Writing Life  – Daniel Sundahl at The Imaginative Conservative. Charity That’s Just Ducky  – Annie Nar...

The ex-Dominion  – David Warren at Essays in Idleness.   The untold story of Brexit  – David Shipley at The Critic Magazine.   No Faith Wort...

If the First Apocalypse Doesn’t Get You, the Second One Will  – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review on the novels of R.C. Sherriff.   On the...

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...

Tolkien, Chesterton, & the Sloth of England  – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.   Who Really Wrote Philip K. Dick’s Best N...

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

Joe the Hero  – Mark Oppenheimer at The Dispatch.  A Wonder Is What It Is  – Nick Offerman at WNYC reads ‘A Warning to My Readers’ by Wendel...

How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science – Thomas Plumper and Eric Neumayer at The MIT Press Reader.  The Bills That Destroyed Urban Ameri...

The Death of Rabelais  – Benjamin Myers reviews the play by Jane Scharl at Fare Forward.   Dostoevsky is blunt and dreary – so why has he go...

Publishing’s Little Secret: It’s All Gambling  – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review. Nothing is more practical than falling in love  – Joy ...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work – It Intensifies It – Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye at  Harvard Business Review .  Grief Goes Hand in Hand w...

A Splendid Poem: Richard Garland’s Epic Flight – James Marten at Emerging Civil War.  Mythologizing the Mythmakers: Tolkien’s “The Notion Cl...

The Wonder of  The Comedy : How to Read Dante – Jason Baxter at The Imaginative Conservative.  A Shakespearean History of Traffic  – Callan ...

The Pretti Case Exposes a Dangerous Lie – Walter Hudson.   From Yellow Pads to Bestseller: John Grisham and the Publication of  The Firm  – ...

The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul – Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker.  The Beautiful Mess of Steinbeck’s  East of Eden  – Joel Miller at Mil...