The Nightstand

I have been hoping for a reckoning about covid for years now, and this book is a major step in that direction.

I found that Wink has not simply played haphazardly with an abundance of tropes but collected them together, arranged them in a pile—so he could then throw them aside and press deeper…

The right kind of literature has the power to make the immediate visible to us once again.

Scott was a scholar of reciprocity, collaboration, and a kind of stubborn agrarianism that is the opposite of romantic and a requisite of real, existing democracy. Let him rest in peace.

Why didn’t Fabre gaze out into the heavens, like Copernicus and Galileo, instead of down at these grotesque little monsters?

Blood and violence and death are on every page; however, trace that which has fallen back to its original height, especially the moment in the barn where all the rough characters are…

In a fragmented age increasingly seduced by the cult of the self, "Wuthering Heights" challenges us to reclaim the difficult virtues that make real community possible.

Kids are good in a theological sense, always. Sometimes, however, their behavior is not what adults would call good.

Chuck dreams of overcoming his allergy so he can reenter normal society. We reject the status quo because we want something better for our kids.

Skidelsky’s expertise is on full display as he tells the story of the impact of machines on the human condition.

Despite the surplus of enchantment discourse these days, the excellent parts of the book are indeed excellent.

We live under the impression that we can do for the human community and the individual human soul what physicists have done with the atom.