Literature

An Old Guy Takes Some Lessons From ‘An Old-Fashioned Girl’0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, MomThink
- July 16, 2026
Why does someone past the Psalmist’s “threescore years and ten” find himself entranced by a 150-year-old novel aimed at adolescents, namely, Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Girl”? The credit or blame – take your pick – for this infatuation lands on a friend whose passion is for older fiction aimed at young readers, like the
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Why Poetry Should Join Your Literary Diet 0
- Culture, Featured, Literature, Western Civilization
- July 10, 2026
In the summer of 2023, I fell in love with poetry. I was living overseas, struggling to navigate a job teaching English and a new life in a third-world country. Amidst the external and internal chaos, Saturdays were a reprieve. I’d mount my moped, drive to a nearby coffeehouse, and spend several hours reading and
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Books Are Inconvenient – and That’s a Good Thing 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Literature
- June 19, 2026
When I was a child, my parents built a library with 15-foot bookshelves, which, as it turned out, weren’t large enough to hold all my father’s books. His desk and armchair were surrounded by a forest of stacked volumes so that you had to navigate carefully to make it through the room. I caught his
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Beauty, Truth, Goodness … and Alzheimer’s 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Health, Literature
- June 16, 2026
Every once in a while, a piece of writing strikes me like lightning illuminating a dark landscape. In her essay, “Sunlight Through Stained Glass,” Monica Seeley recounts the descent of her older sister into the dungeons of Alzheimer’s, yet that brief synopsis hides the lightning of her prose. While still in elementary school, Seeley lost both
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Here’s What Families Should Read for AMERICA250 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, History, Literature, MomThink, Western Civilization
- June 8, 2026
Second Lady Usha Vance just announced her annual summer reading challenge for the nation’s children in grades K–8. According to Vance, the challenge is simple, requiring children to read only 12 books over the summer in order to receive several prizes and a chance to visit the White House. In a time when only a third of the
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You Can Do Better Than a Beach Read 0
- Culture, Featured, Literature
- June 2, 2026
“But the fountain sprang up and the bird sang down Redeem the time, redeem the dream The token of the word unheard, unspoken” – T. S. Eliot, “Ash Wednesday” In his poem “Ash Wednesday,” T. S. Eliot famously borrows the language of St. Paul in order to image the paradoxes of faith. “For you were once
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