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May 2021

Knowing the Worst
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene | Richard Greene | W. W. Norton & Company
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Sean Johnson

March 2021

Interview: Gracy Olmstead on Rootlessness, Small Towns, and City People
Her new book, "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind," calls us to value places that our society is leaving behind.
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David Kern
Notes on Form: The Elegance of Wallace Stevens
For Stevens elegance was a pathway to the divine, but it also reminds us that the divine may be just one more product of the imagination
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James Matthew Wilson

February 2021

Two Trains Running
Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust | Rebecca Clifford | Yale
The Beauty of the Second Power
Aesthetics (2 Volumes), Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project
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James Matthew Wilson

January 2021

Re-Enchanting Abandoned Language
The Lost Spells | Robert MacFarlance, illus. Jackie Morris | Anansi International
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David Russell Mosley
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What Makes a Fully Realized Poem?
How the dialectical, the dialogical, and the dramatic create an openness that allows art to flourish
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James Matthew Wilson
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December 2020

Solzhenitsyn: A Voice for When History Repeats Itself
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West | Ed. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson | Notre Dame
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Heidi White
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What You Eat Is What You Think (And Perhaps Vice Versa)
Eat, Drink, Think: What Ancient Greece Can Tell Us About Food and Wine David Roochnik | Bloomsbury

November 2020

When Fires Rage Turn to Stephen Pyne
The Still-Burning Bush | Stephen Pyne | Scribe
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John Wilson
Amateur Apostle: On Ninety-Five Years of Robert Farrar Capon
Capon is best-known for his food writing but all of his work is shot through with his Chestertonian view of God as a jovial Romantic.
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Sean Johnson
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