I began working wood in earnest when, during graduate school, a discount-store shelving unit nearly collapsed under my growing collection of books. My wife and I went to the lumber yard and came back with a small pile of boards…
Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s story The Runaway Bunny1 (illustrated by Clement Hurd) has garnered scant scholarly attention since its publication in 1942, although academic interest in the book was briefly revived in the 1990s by the publication of Margaret…
Most book reviews open with a tidy summary of the book in question. To put it gently, Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins (HarperOne, 2011) resists summary. So instead of a chapter-by-chapter summary, I’d like to articulate, as best I…
Stephen Schuler, offers this review of Part I: Scholar (chapters 2-5). John V. Fleming, “Literary Critic,” 15-28; Stephen Logan, “Literary Theorist,” 29-42; Dennis Danielson, “Intellectual Historian,” 43-57; and Mark Edwards, “Classicist,” 58-74 from Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis, ed. Robert…
Why is it that most literate people do not read much poetry? There was a time in England and even America when volumes of poetry sold as well as novels did. But who really reads poetry today? Even among my…