Category: Books
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Julian Green — A Turbulent Passage — from Crisis Magazine, Feb. 1, 1996.
https://www.crisismagazine.com/1996/julian-green-a-turbulent-passage The penultimate volume of Julian Green’s four-part autobiography, anglicized as Love In America, borrows its haunting epigraph from Francois Villon, “In my own country I am in a distant land.” Certainly, no writer’s personal situation was ever more appropriately limned by this striking verse than that of Julian Green. Born ninety-five years ago in…
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Review of ‘Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music’ by Robert Reilly and Jens Laurson
The Claremont Review asked me for a review of Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music by Robert R. Reilly and Jens F. Laurson (Ignatius Press, 2016). A Baedeker to Beauty Deal W. Hudson January 8, 2018 As a Baedeker for the musically literate, Robert Reilly’s Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s…
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Deal W. Hudson interviews Joseph Bottum about literary matters
Joseph Bottum, former editor of First Things, and I discussed novels and other literary matters in this episode of “Church and Culture Today” from 2001.
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Buckley’s ‘Republic of Virtue’ Chronicles America’s Fight for Integrity
Deal W. Hudson December 18, 2017 Frank Buckley, a law professor at the Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, has written an extraordinary book that deserves to find a wide readership and, hopefully, to wield considerable influence on the future of U.S. politics. Why such large claims? Simply put, “The Republic of Virtue”…
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