Summer 2015
Contents
Review 28 June 2015
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Churchill Defends the Gallipoli Campaign
a review by Francis P. Sempa
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Sempa looks at Winston Churchill’s attempts to defend the strategy of the Gallipoli offensive in World War I—and his role in it—a century after the disastrous campaign cost a quarter of a million lives.
On Letters and Essays 28 June 2015
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‘Spoken with Sufficient Seriousness’
by James V. Schall, S. J.
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Father Schall reflects on the letters and essays of Blaise Pascal, the “infinite spaces,” and the light of truth.
Books in Little 5 July 2015
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Books in Little
by Alexis Carra
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Brief reviews of a new translation of Albert Camus’s Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism and James Matthew Wilson’s monograph on the poet Timothy Steele.
Review 5 July 2015
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From the Trenches to the Shire
a review by Matthew H. Young
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A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, & Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914–1918. by Joseph Loconte. Thomas Nelson, 2015. Hardcover, 244 pages, $25.
Review 5 July 2015
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The Final Artistic Taboo
a review by Mark Anthony Signorelli
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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
by Arthur Danto.
Princeton University Press, 1997, 2014.
Paperback, 272 pages, $20.
Review 12 July 2015
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Look Under the Turnip
a review by Craig Bernthal
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The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales by Franz Xaver Schönwerth, translated with an introduction and commentary by Maria Tatar.
Penguin Classics, 2015.
Paperback, 288 pages, $17.
Interview 12 July 2015
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Dangers to the Soul
an interview by Karl Schmude
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A conversation with novelist Piers Paul Read on his work, the state of the Catholic novel, the nature of the family, and more.
Review 19 July 2015
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A Tale of Contagious Enthusiasm
a review by Gene Callahan
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How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem. by Rod Dreher. Regan Arts, 2015. Hardcover, 300 pages. $30.
Review 20 July 2015
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The Geneaology of Decadence?
a review by Eamon Moynihan
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Soumission
by Michel Houellebecq.
Paris: Flammarion, 2015.
Hardcover, 300 pages, $50.
Essay 26 July 2015
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Terry Castle: The Anti-Paglia
by Helen Andrews
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What is it that makes The Professor and Other Writings the best American essay collection since Consider the Lobster?
Review 2 August 2015
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A Certain Cold Grandeur
a review by Jason K. Duncan
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On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
by Richard Norton Smith. Random House, 2014.
Hardcover, 842 pages, $38.
Review 2 August 2015
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A Glimpse of Something Lost
a review by Nathan P. Origer
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America Moved: Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869–1928
by Booth Tarkington, edited by Jeremy Beer. Front Porch Republic Books, 2015.
Paperback, 270 pages, $32.
Review 9 August 2015
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An Old Tale, Retold
a review by Pedro Blas González
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Grendel
by John Gardner.
Vintage, 1971, 1989.
Paperback, 192 pages, $14.
Review 9 August 2015
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The Heritage of Ta-Nehisi Coates
a review by Helen Andrews
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.
Review 16 August 2015
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Learning What We Don’t Know
a review by Allen Mendenhall
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The Risk of Reading: How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World
by Robert P. Waxler.
Bloomsbury, 2014.
Paper, 191 pages, $30.
Review 16 August 2015
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A Literary Bloodhound Tracks Eliot
a review by Lee Oser
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Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land
by Robert Crawford.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Hardcover, 493 + xvi pages, $35.
Review 23 August 2015
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A Terrible Beauty
a review by Michael Warren Davis
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Displacement by Derek Turner.
Endeavour Press, 2015.
E-book, 1054 Kb, $3.
Review 30 August 2015
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Who Governs the World?
a review by Flavio Felice
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Chi governa il mondo?
by Sabino Cassese.
Bologna: il Mulino, 2013.
Paperback, 138 pages, $21.57.
English edition: The Global Polity: Global Dimensions of Democracy and the Rule of Law. Sevilla: Global Law Press/Editorial Derecho Global, 2012. Etext, free.
Review 30 August 2015
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Complicating the Nixon Story
a review by Francis P. Sempa
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The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952–1961
by Irwin F. Gellman.
Yale University Press, 2015.
Hardcover, 791 pages, $40.
On Letters and Essays 30 August 2015
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‘Et tu, Brute?’
by James V. Schall, S. J.
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Father Schall reflects on the death of Caesar and the speech of Mark Antony.
Review 13 September 2015
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Re-introducing Japan’s Conservatives
a review by Jason Morgan
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Japan’s Love-Hate Relationship with the West
by Hirakawa Sukehiro.
Global Oriental (Kent, UK), 2005.
Hardcover, 400 pages, $90.
Review 13 September 2015
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On Not Being Boring
a review by Robert C. Koons
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Acedia and its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire
by R. J. Snell.
Angelico Press, 2015.
Paperback, 144 pages, $15.
A poor man, if he has dignity, honesty, the respect of his neighbors, a realization of his duties, a love of the wisdom of his ancestors, and possibly some taste for knowledge or beauty, is rich in the unbought grace of life.
Russell Kirk
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