Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy

The philosophy of focusing on a slow and loving existence in the quiet now

Five Pieces of Furniture for Your Intellectual Living Room

These truths settle nothing but ought to inform everything

The Joy of Seed Catalogs

Teresa Mull at The Spectator

Charles Bukowski's L.A.

Loren Kantor at WritingAndTyping (Medium)

The Shallow World of Artificial Intelligence

Adam Kirsch at LiteratureGBT

Asteroid City: America is a Strange Land

I didn't like the movie, but it was strange. I suppose that's positive . . . or at least, American.

A Charming Suggestion: Bring Back the Tickets

Bailey Sincox at Public Books

Fundamentalism: The Disposition that Fuels the Jerks of the World

Most disagreeable people have this common trait.

Why You Should Care about Gene Wolfe

He's the author of Book of the New Sun, which is massive but which I just finished and which is incredible, full of implicit Catholic theology, Greek philosophy, and mythology. Some of his biggest literary influences were Chesterton and Tolkien. He's also a convert, whose conversion

BYCU: Drinking Literature: The Good, the Bad, and the Tripe

This is a Lovely Drinking Piece from the Spectator An ode to localism, in its way It used to have a snug: a partitioned room where ladies could drink in privacy. Those days are gone, now; it’s been closed off. The ornately carved bar and buttoned leather bench seats