One Eternal Day

From "The death of Superman: How Hollywood killed the American hero" : Something has been absent in recent times in the adaptation...

The Free Press sponsored an essay contest for high school students and received hundreds of submissions. The winner is a home-schooled seven...

I retired from teaching—mostly high school social studies—in 2005. Today I rediscovered a folder of materials I had accumulated over those 3...

I have accumulated several editions of The Lord of the Rings over the years. I regret that I no longer have the paperbacks that were my int...

In the early '60s I read that JFK's favorite books were Ian Fleming's James Bond thrillers. I wasn't a fan of JFK but I did ...

This reminded me of the annual summer trips to West Virginia to visit the grandparents in the 1950s: Signs announcing roadside picnic tab...

Enjoyed re-reading this essay about Erskine Childers and his only novel: The period of the First World War was a golden age for the spy nov...

Patrick Kurp, in 'We Are So Lucky Having English, ' quotes an English poet, John Whitworth: Shakespeare. Browning. Wallace Stevens. ...

I received James Como's Mystical Perelandra  two days ago. In his first chapter, he describes his discovery of C.S. Lewis, a discovery t...

From Joseph Loconte's review of James Como's Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C.S. Lewis and His Favorite Book : Amid th...

I discovered Manning Coles as a teenager. An aunt had Without Lawful Authority in her book collection and I started reading it while visiti...

I taught high school for thirty-six years, retiring in 2005. Most of the time when I dealt with a discipline problem in the classroom or in ...

On Robbie Robertson and The Band : .... Musically, what he achieved with The Band dominates his legacy (though he composed many movie soundt...

I very much like book illustration that well complements the story. I think of artists like Sidney Paget (Sherlock Holmes), Ernest Shepard (...

A Brit who has lived in the US for several years is baffled that Americans aren't "capable of making a decent cup of tea," but...

From "Because I Said So" : .... Moses offers three critical ways to address the challenge of trusting in the divine: remembrance, ...

From a review of two books about Lincoln's religion: .... When the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in the...

Classic Film Noir on Facebook comments on one of my favorite films , Night of the Hunter , with Robert Mitchum: Charles Laughton’s American ...

From a review of “'Talking Cure,' an essay on the civilizing power of conversation”: Political polarization quickly rears its head ...

Almost a quarter of a century ago came Bob Dylan's album Slow Train Coming . That was about the time I began to take Dylan seriously. I ...