Love Thyself: The West’s Fatal Flaw Claude Polin - OCTOBER 05, 2017 What used to be Western civilization is indeed threatened today with progressive extinction at the hands of Muslim immigration, which considers the West as a worthless relic of a useless past, at best, or, in the minds of Islam’s more or less... Read More
REVIEWS A Great Perhaps Jack Trotter - OCTOBER 05, 2017 Sale’s theme is the restoration of “human scale” in all our works: architectural, political, economic, educational, and technological. His thesis is that only radical decentralization can achieve this aim. Read More
REVIEWS The Camelot-Chequers Axis Derek Turner - OCTOBER 05, 2017 At the kernel of this story is the at times ambivalent relationship between JFK and his bluntly outspoken father, whose appointment in 1938 as ambassador to the Court of St. James seemed inexplicable even at the time. Read More
REVIEWS Stepping Ashore Constance Rowell Mastores - OCTOBER 05, 2017 The best poetry—great poetry—happens when sound, rhythm, and image bring about a mysterious feeling of wholeness that somehow draws mind, body, and spirit together in what both Yeats and Eliot envisioned as a unified dance. Read More
REVIEWS Books in Brief Chilton Williamson Jr. - OCTOBER 05, 2017 As readers and critics had learned everything that is important to know about Hemingway and his work decades ago, subsequent books about the novelist have concentrated on viewing and re-viewing him from various angles. Read More
REVIEWS What the Editors Are Reading Chilton Williamson Jr. - OCTOBER 05, 2017 When I was growing up in Manhattan the generational text for the generation immediately before mine was The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. My tastes in high school ran to Thomas Wolfe (of course), Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest... Read More
IN THE DARK Allegorically Yours George McCartney - OCTOBER 05, 2017 I am about to discuss a truly wretched film: mother!, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Before I do I must warn you that I’ll be violating the reviewer’s rule against revealing a film’s central conceit and its ending. Read More