The Nightstand

He begins the story cradling his father’s headstone, a symbol, as there is no body, and prepares to set it next to his mother’s grave.

While the book has moments of clarity, it is ultimately frustrating and unpersuasive. If I were to add a subtitle, it would be Post-Liberalism: A Guide for the Uncurious.

This is not an attempt to paganize the faith, but to re-situate it. “Inhabit the Time and Genesis of your Original Home,” he urges.

The film's mystery is a satisfying one, but its pleasures are secondary to the consideration of the larger mystery of the Christian faith.

Clavier introduces a colorful cast of characters in the first few chapters of the novel. Luckily, we’re given a character index at the beginning of the book, so if you get a…

She cares for the Kid until he mends. And what does the Kid do to her in return? “He has no money to pay her and he leaves in the night.” The…

Through short and accessible chapters, Crosby makes a case for the inspiration that comes through reading. In Part 1, he lays the foundation—the why and what of reading, from stories to scripture.…

What should we make of a marionette production? What should we make of an artificial park?

It’s gray, flat, dim, quiet, and temperate, and I’m looking at all that gray, flat, dimness, while it’s quiet and temperate.

Accessible and hospitable.

It isn’t in the script, nor is it even in the cinematography. It is as if in a whisper which speaks to your heart.

By 1926, Lewis had read enough of Eliot’s poetry to conclude it a great waste and devised a prank against Eliot that involved submitting mock-modernist poetry to "The Criterion."