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Beyond The Waste Land: The Vision of T. S. Eliot The new issue of the St. Austin Review is now available. Highlights: Ben Lockerd considers “T. S. Eliot and the Sense of History”. Joseph Pearce surveys Eliot’s relationship with G. K. Chesterton, asking whether they were friends or enemies. R. V. Young connects “History, Personality, and Poetry in [...]
TV is an acronym for the telos-vampire that sucks the meaning of life from our lives. Here is my call for people to exorcise it from their homes: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/tv-is-for-dummies
In 1963 Andy Williams recorded a new song, “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” meaning the Christmas season, and the lyrics included the lines, “There’ll be scary ghost stories/And tales of the glories of/Christmases long, long ago.” Most likely the reference is to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, but it points to a tradition [...]
There is fitting irony that Matt Cvetic (1909-1962) died while waiting to renew his driver’s license. For nine years as an undercover informer for the federal government, and then as a public speaker, he had dedicated much of his life to fighting a bureaucratic vision of society, advocated by men and women who, as Ludwig von [...]
Aldo Leopold, in his essay, “A Man’s Leisure Time,” often printed with his A Sand County Almanac (1949), suggested that “a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.” He declared that a hobby is “a defiance of the contemporary,” and that “no hobby should either seek or need rational justification.” Further, [...]
“Okay,” he said, slowly, patiently, “now, squeeze.” A father with a .22, teaching his son how to shoot: A memory evoked by Frank Miniter’s The Ultimate Man’s Survival Guide, published in 2009 and now, ten years later, followed up with The Ultimate Man’s Survival Guide to the Workplace. (In these casual times, a clue comes from [...]
I recently gave an interview to a delightful podcast called "Pints with Jack", dedicated to the life and legacy of C. S. Lewis. It's now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YMguYB5B920
Sixty-five years ago, Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine compiled an anthology, Short Story Masterpieces, three dozen examples of great short fiction in English from the previous sixty or so years. Authors included ranged from Stephen Crane and Henry James to Ernest Hemingway and Eudora Welty. Among them was Joseph Conrad’s tale from 1897, “An Outpost [...]