Reconsiderations February 2023
Not simply the best
On Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy.
Department: “Reconsiderations”
Reconsiderations December 2022
The conflicted anti-colonialist
On the career of Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Reconsiderations September 2022
Arise, Sir Arnold?
On the faceoff between Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett.
Reconsiderations June 2022
Critical “Potash” Theory
On Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass.
Reconsiderations March 2022
Looming morality
On George Eliot’s Silas Marner.
Reconsiderations February 2022
Hoosier prodigy
On Raintree County by Ross Lockridge, Jr.
Reconsiderations November 2021
Immigration, crime & the leftist mind
On the Wallander novels by Henning Mankell.
Reconsiderations June 2021
Society vanishes
On the novels of Louis Auchincloss.
Reconsiderations June 2021
The poet as memoirist
On W. B. Yeats’s Autobiographies.
Reconsiderations March 2021
Caledonian seeker
On Alexander Carmichael’s compendium of Celtic Christianity.