Faith, Fiction, Friends

  Did Charles Dickens’s  Bleak House  Inspire  Murder on the Orient Express ?  – Olivia Rutigliano at CrimeReads.   Such a thing  – poem by ...

  The Spider Taketh Hold with Her Hands, and is in Kings’ Palaces  – Kilby Austin at Rabbit Room Poetry.   “Idyll,” poem by Siegfried Sassoo...

During this past week, the  Emerging Civil War  web site has been posting its countdown of the 10 most read articles on its site in 2025. Th...

One of the main characters of my new novel  Brookhaven  has been a major admirer of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow since he was a child. It’s un...

The kindest of ghosts: A new history of childhood reading is a treasure – Simon Evans at The Critic Magazine.  Jeffrey Archer: My 10 Favouri...

Handbags & Handcuffs: The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective  by Sara Lodge – Claire Harman at Literary Review.  “Poor Ed...

Murders for September – Jeremy Black at The Critic Magazine.  On the name ‘Hamlet’  – Adam Roberts at Adam’s Notebook.   Podcast: The Inland...

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

No, Taylor Swift is not Mary Shelley – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.    Left in the Rain  – poem by Renee Emerson at Story Warren.   Re...

The new edition of  An Unexpected Journal  is  now online , and its 15 essays focus on modernity. Writers include Annie Nardone, Seth Myers,...