Revisiting Old Favourites
The Beggar Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree
Dostoyevsky's short story about there being no room at the [...]
Remembering a Great and Controversial Poet
Reading my preface to Remembering Roy Campbell... Image [...]
Chesterton and Saint Francis
Reading and discussing my introduction to Chesterton's book on Saint [...]
The Best of Chesterton’s Essays
Reading my preface to a collection of the best of [...]
Tolkien and Lewis: When Two Worlds Collude
Understanding the philosophy of myth which Tolkien and Lewis shared... [...]
Christopher Dawson, Tolkien and Lewis
Praising three giants of the Christian literary revival... [...]
Chesterton’s Nightmare
I read the chapter on Chesterton's novel, The Man Who [...]
J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth
Reading my foreword to Bradley J. Birzer's book on Tolkien... [...]
Hope is the Sweetness of Our Lives
Reading an essay I wrote for a volume on the [...]
Love and Resistance in a Time of Terror
I read my foreword to the new edition of Robert [...]
Revisiting the Tudor Terror
Reading my foreword to By What Authority?, Robert Hugh Benson's [...]
What’s the Best of Belloc?
Discussing the rival claims for what ranks as the best [...]