Books

Interesting Christopher Hitchens piece in The Atlantic Monthly about Ian Fleming, who is described as "sadist, a narcissist, and an all-around repressed pervert." I've read a few Bond books, at the request of my wife, who's a big fan (no, she's

Re: Crunchy Cons [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400050642/thedailyeudem-20] I started it on Saturday and finished it on Saturday. I'm not going to write a detailed review. Rather, I offer these random thoughts. First, the good news. Dreher is a delightful writer and his

> Welcome to the Neglected Books page. Here you'll find lists of thousands of books that have been neglected, overlooked, forgotten, or stranded by changing tides in critical or popular taste. [http://www.neglectedbooks.com/index.html] When I first saw this, I thought, "Well, if books

I've been meaning to mention this all week, but haven't gotten the chance: a Boston Globe article about Harvey Mansfield's new book, Manliness. I haven't read the book, but I've read a little of Mansfield's stuff. I suspect

Readers of this blog know I like Wikipedia, though I don't entirely trust it. Is it trustworthy? I think so, and so do some researchers. From The Atlantic Monthly: > [Wikipedia] is not much worse than the online version of the legendary Encyclopedia Britannica, according to a study

From the National Catholic Register's coverage of Amy Welborn's "Theology on Tap" lecture in Rome about the Da Vinci Code: > Welborn said she would rather be writing her own novels “than talking about this silly, silly book,” and that people's “unending

Roger Kimball writes about his favorite comic novels [http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110008077]: 1. "Leave It to Psmith" by P.G. Wodehouse 2. "Scoop" by Evelyn Waugh 3. "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" by Eric Hodgins 4. "Lucky Jim&

Flippin' flip books [http://www.flippies.com/history.htm]. Excerpt from the beginning: > From the pre-motion picuture era to the origins of animation, cinema and modern entertainment, flip books are recognized as one of the earliest forms of what today is referred to as "interactive multimedia&

You think Tim LaHaye is just an honest Christian who happened to make a bunch of money from writing fiction about his pet eschatological theory? Check out this page: The Rapture--Coming 06.06.06 [http://www.leftbehind.com/]. LaHaye is a marketer, a fiction writer, and maybe a psychologist,

A correspondent says J.K. Rowling isn't a freak. I found this interesting enough to post at Chesterton and Friends [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/] and here: > She is a member of the Church of Scotland (the Scottish Anglican Church-- not the Presbyterian church). She refuses to reveal