The Wordhord
By blending Anglo Saxon words with modern language, Hana Videen shows us how close the English of the past is to the English of the present.
By blending Anglo Saxon words with modern language, Hana Videen shows us how close the English of the past is to the English of the present.
We would do well to read Rowan Williams alongside Robin Wall Kimmerer, just as we should read Maximos the Confessor alongside Thomas Aquinas.
A public librarian joins Amanda Oliver in her reckoning with the institution of the library—past, present, and future.
A music writer makes the case for writing about music—and gestures toward the source of meaning-making.
A poet and teacher reviews a new collection following the adventures of a “Knucklehead” learning to learn, even as he sets out to teach.
Jake Meador’s newest book looks at the origins of our culture of use and offers an overview of what a different perspective might be.
A series of epistolary poems capture connection, distance, and the ever-present chance that a miracle might come in the mail.
In Bower Lodge, we are dealing with a poet who has traced the words and worlds of others for a long time before putting pen to paper himself.
Was Jane Austen a moral philosopher? Absolutely.
Fans of G.K. Chesterton will enjoy this apologetic masquerading as a biography, but those looking for details of Saint Thomas’s life may come away disappointed.