I'd always relegated Robert Coover to the ranks of John Barth and Donald Barthelme, as briefly influential arch peddlers of irony, lust...

Neither op-ed pieces nor arcane articles (at least in editorial theory), these appeared sponsored by the New York Times circa 2010-15. The...

The "New Atheists" get it wrong about religious perpetuation, argues this philosopher, an atheist himself. Tim Crane rejects ba...

Twenty years after this first appeared, this diligent chronicler returns to the book that made him famous. Johnny Rogan incited Morrissey i...

Reading an advance copy of Martin Amis' The Rub of Time  (collected essays and journalism), his insights into his father's friendsh...

More than one friend lately has warned me to be prepared for challenges ahead--the kind which happen when our world, that of the "Engl...

No, the venerable (and atheist) L.A. punk band does not figure in this learned recounting of how accommodationalists of both major Christia...

Samuel Orr preaches on East Belfast's streets. There "he spoke only the scripture, no commentary, no opinion, no interpretation. N...

This was inspired by the suppression by the communists of the Taoists in China. Le Guin in her introduction to the 2017 Library of America...

As editions jumble and formats collide on Amazon for such classics, I'll explain Kindle versions. The public-domain ones for free or a ...

These Hainish fictions aren't a cycle. Rather "a convenience" than "a conception." So Ursula Le Guin introduces th...

For those skeptical of supernatural claims and theistic versions of Buddhism, Robert Wright continues the quest that his earlier books suc...

This biography covers all of this Irish poet's life and career. The subtitle may lead one to believe it's only about the period rou...

Facing his mid-life crisis, Michael McCaughan explores his reunion with the Irish language he'd abandoned, along with most students in...