Best of the Bookman 20 January 2013
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A Blinkered Life of Burke - The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke, by Conor Cruise O’Brien. University of Chicago Press, 1992.Paper 692 pp., $34.95.
Review 13 January 2013
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Testing the Metaphor - Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J. G. Ballard, 1967–2008, Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara. Fourth Estate, 2012. Hardcover, 304 pages, £25.
Best of the Bookman 13 January 2013
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Burke Endures - The Enduring Edmund Burke, edited by Ian Crowe. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1997. 221pp., $25 cloth.
Review 6 January 2013
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Bloodied Beauty - The Poetics of Evil: Toward an Aesthetic Theodicy by Philip Tallon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Cloth, 266 pages, $74.
Best of the Bookman 6 January 2013
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True Ethical Humanism - Rousseau and Romanticism, by Irving Babbitt. With a new Introduction by Claes G. Ryn. Transaction Publishers, 1991.
Editorial 1 January 2013
- Editor’s Note: Looking Forward and Back
Review 30 December 2012
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A Player Piano for the Twenty-First Century - Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Dial Press 1999 [1952] Paper, 352 pages, $15.
On Essays and Letters 23 December 2012
Below is a bonus column from Father Schall. You can also peruse his other online articles in this series here.
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On Quotations - Father Schall reflects on the art of the quotation: We usually do not quote just to be quoting.
Review 16 December 2012
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Conversation in Collapse - The Conversation, Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. American Zoetrope / Paramount, 1974. 113 minutes.
On Essays and Letters 16 December 2012
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The Real Charm of Oxford - Father Schall reflects on letters of the English Dominican Bede Jarrett.
Essay 9 December 2012
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The State of American Liberal Education These Days - Peter Augustine Lawler says that the requirements of being middle class—of living in a meritocracy based on productivity—gradually destroys liberal education in America, but two countercultures continue to preserve serious education that teaches people to live well.
Essay 9 December 2012
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Ten Conservative Books Revisited - In 1986, Russell Kirk gave a lecture on Ten Conservative Books. Bookman editor Gerald Russello returns to the theme 25 years on with another ten recommendations.
Interview 2 December 2012
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Having It Both Ways
an interview by - Novelist and poet James Lasdun speaks with the Bookman about why he feels violence is an important theme to be explored in poetry, how Chekhov modernized him as a writer, and why an industrial wasteland in New Jersey inspired the milieu for one of his novels.
Review 2 December 2012
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Back to the Sources, Almost - Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir by David Grene. University of Chicago Press, 2006, cloth, 184 pages, $35.
