Chesterton, Gilbert K. “On Running After One’s Hat.” All Things Considered. New York: John Lane Company, 1909. 35-36. I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and they could not […]
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Evelyn Waugh Book Review by Paul Johnson
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Mar 2012
For all of you Evelyn Waugh lovers out there. I have dug up a little something to whet your appetites. It is a sort of historical book review by Paul Johnson of A Handful of Dust. Here’s a preview (and coincidently my very favorite part): Waugh’s gifts as a storyteller are now so obvious to us, […]
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Andrew Lytle on Kristin Lavransdatter
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Mar 2012
I recently discovered that the last thing Andrew Lytle published before he died at the ripe ol’ age of 92 was a book entitled Kristin: A Reading by Andrew Lytle. Naturally, he’s referring to the heroine of the medieval Norwegian saga: Kristin Lavransdatter. This is exciting on several levels—mainly that Kristin seems to be Lytle’s […]
