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Lewis Cover Story

U.S. News and World Report's cover story this week is about C.S. Lewis. Written by Walker Percy biographer Jay Tolson, it's pretty good, from what I've read so far. (I'm battling a touch of the stomach flu, while helping my wife and three of my children who have full-blown stomach flu, so reading time has been limited today.)

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Books Aren't Rational. They're Tactile.

Back in the greasy, disco-lit haze of the 1970s and the dawn of the Reaganite ‘80s, the publishing world churned out a billion paperbacks. They were dirt cheap, some even free, handed out like girlie pamphlets on the Vegas strip. But there was a hook: they were riddled with ads,

Books Can Shield You From Cults

Role models are great. We all oughtta have a few. But don’t underestimate the anti-role models. These cautionary wraiths of consequence are more often the true educators in this carnival of folly called “modernity,” whispering not “be like me” but “For God’s sake, be anything but.” That lean

Twenty 20th-Century Books for Young Autodidacts

(Actually, there are 33, if you count the honorable mentions) Joseph Epstein is arguably the best essayist alive. He’s urbane, funny, self-deprecating. He’s a fine stylist, and he’s remarkably well-read. I remember William F. Buckley marveling at Epstein’s erudition and wondering how Epstein could have so