Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article 50 Years After the Father's Farewell This September marks the fiftieth anniversary of J. R. R. Tolkien’s voyage to the Blessed Realm. Husband, father, scholar, author, artist—a myriad of titles could not do justice to the man behind the mythology of Middle-earth. However, there is [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Who is Tom Bombadil? Mystery. Enigma. These are two words to describe Tom Bombadil. Ever since his first appearance in The Fellowship of the Ring, published in 1954, he has left readers guessing and debating about who he is. Many have spent decades conjecturing [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article The Great Divorce: A Novel Answer to an Immodest Proposal Well before Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone debuted in 1959, C. S. Lewis wrote a fantasy novel that crossed over “into another dimension” not only of sight, sound, and mind, but of soul. Published during the [...]
Is Milton responsible for making the Devil a sympathetic character? Joseph Pearce asks and endeavours to answer this controversial question... Sympathy for the Devil? - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Joseph Pearce recommends twelve works of contemporary fiction published in the twenty-first century... A Dazzling Dozen - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Celebrating Tolkien on Hobbit Day... Celebrating Hobbit Day - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Celebrating the great Metaphysical Poet, Richard Crashaw... The Catholic Poet Who Died in Exile - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
We can't understand Shakespeare's plays unless we understand the man who wrote them... Shakespeare's Authorial Authority - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Celebrating the Saint Robert Southwell whose poetry and holiness inspired the works of Shakespeare... Saint, Martyr and Shakespeare's Muse - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Great lessons that great poems teach... The Poetic Path to Wisdom - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
The danger of anger... Anger Spells Danger - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
How did Tolkien's Catholic faith inspire his work? Tolkien the Catholic - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
In her autobiography, My Life in Three Acts (1990), Helen Hayes contrasted her acting career with that of her friend, Maurice Evans. “Maurice had an advantage that I lacked,” she explained, “a strong drive to get ahead.” Of herself, she shrugged, “I just floated along, and things somehow fell into my lap.” Unimpressed by Evans’ drive, [...]