Revisiting Old Favourites
Chesterton Meets Father Christmas
And Father Christmas meets Charles Dickens, Sir Richard Steele, Ben [...]
A Hobbit Hole for Holy Hobbits to Hide in the Shire
The hobbit hole is a priests' hole. The holy hobbits [...]
Graham Greene and the Pathological Muse
Heresy and orthodoxy in The Power and the Glory... [...]
Tolkien’s Catholic Imagination
Revisiting my appraisal of a book on the Catholic Imagination [...]
My Fifty Years with Tolkien
Celebrating a half century spent in the light and shadow [...]
The Sixteenth Century in Three Dimensions
Looking at the good, bad and beautiful 1500s...
The Chesterbelloc: The Beauty of the Beast
Comparing and contrasting the brilliance of Chesterton and Belloc... [...]
Defending Tolkien
My riposte to a critic who denied the Catholicism of [...]
The Priest in Literature
Exploring the way that priests are depicted in literature... [...]
Judas the Biographer
A biographer who betrays her subject with a kiss... [...]
Chesterton and Fascism
What exactly is fascism and what did Chesterton think about [...]
Portrait of a Civilized Man
I pay tribute to one of the most cultured and [...]