REVIEW: The Spiritual History of English – Andrew Thornton-Norris (Os Justi Press, 2024)
With broad strokes, poet Andrew Thornton-Norris offers a broad history of English literature where it intersects with the English spirit.
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REVIEW: The MANIAC – Benjamin Labatut (Penguin, 2023)
Author Benjamin Labatut uses fiction to explore the life and legacy of John von Neumann, the physicist and engineer who propelled man’s knowledge past the particle and into the digital.
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REVIEW: Ordered by Love – Thomas M. Ward (Angelico Press, 2022)
Thomas Ward offers a brief but intriguing look at the thought of Bl. John Duns Scotus, the great Catholic scholastic and theologian.
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REVIEW: Rainbow Body and Resurrection – Fr. Francis V. Tiso (2016, North Atlantic Books)
Francis Tiso examines the phenomenon of the rainbow body and draws theoretical comparisons to the Christian doctrine of resurrection. Or, what exactly is happening to mystics in Tibet?
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REVIEW: Confessions of a Mask – Yukio Mishima (1949; 1958, New Directions)
With his second novel, Mishima made landfall in the West. The book is far more about the mask, however, than the confessions.
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REVIEW: The Passenger & Stella Maris – Cormac McCarthy (Alfred Ak. Knopf, 2022)
In his first major work in sixteen years, Cormac McCarthy attempts to reckon the length and breadth of existence in The Passenger.
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The Hobbit: An Answer to Turin
In The Hobbit, Tolkien famously depicts a children’s story about an adventuring English bachelor, but beneath this is a meditation on providence.
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Tragedy, Providence, and Sin in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Children of Hurin
Known as probably Tolkien’s darkest work, The Children of Hurin illustrates well the relationship between sin, providence, and tragedy.
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REVIEW: The Virgin Shall Give Birth – Fr. John Lawrence M. Polis, FI (Academy of the Immaculate, 2022)
Fr. Polis offers a detailed overview of the Scotistic doctrines associated with the Virgin Birth in this eminently readable but thorough volume.
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REVIEW: The Last Closet – Moira Greyland (Castalia House, 2018)
The daughter of established fantasy writer Marion Zimmer Bradley details her experiences as an abuse victim and the twisted ideology of her free love-addicted abusers.
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