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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief by George M. Marsden

This latest book by historian George M. Marsden is an insightful history and analysis of...

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Book Review: ‘Night Call and Other Stories of Suspense’

NIGHT CALL AND OTHER STORIES OF SUSPENSE - By Charlotte Armstrong (1905-69) - Edited by R...

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Jack Carter Returns

"The rain rained.” It takes a tremendous amount of courage, or foolishness, to begin a...

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An Above-Average Superhero Story

Duncan MacMaster is the proprietor of The Furious D Show, one of the most interesting mo...

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Koontz’s Latest: Lyrical, Tragic, and Brilliant

After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to l...

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Pirog’s Thomas Prescott Novels: Good, and Getting Better

Nick Pirog’s Thomas Prescott novels are worth reading just to watch a writer learning hi...

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Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration Between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics by Timothy Stanley

  The problem with a book like this is that it can easily overestimate the importa...

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Review: ‘The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade by Philip Jenkins’

Later this year, the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the First World War will ...

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Fifteen Impossibilities: A Book Review

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne — By Edward D. Hoch — Int...

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Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy Tales

  The eleven tales that comprise the Lord Darcy series of  Randall Garrett provid...

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One Path to a Renaissance

FROM THE FOUNTAINHEAD TO THE FUTURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS ON ART AND EXCELLENCE — By Alexan...

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‘Chas’ Novel Explores Dependence on Technology, Family

CHAS: FORESHADOWING DESTINY — By Mike Arthur — Novel — Westbow Press — 2013 — T...

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Gnostic-in-Chief?

On WorldNetDaily (WND), Ellis Washington shows us how a first-century religious heresy is...

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Prose Fiction Update With A Bit of Poetry

Another week, another passel of links into the wide, wide world of wondrous word-smith...

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Dick Francis, Manly Novelist

A while back I read Dick Francis' mystery, Decider, and decided I'd be reading more. So I ...

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Prose Fiction Update

For your reading pleasure, as the work week comes to a close. Spend some time this weeke...

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Ten Books for Conservatives (podcast)

From Accuracy in Media, in a podcast Don Irvine talks with Dr. Benjamin Wiker, author of 1...

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Fiction Friday: Stories, News, Reviews & Opinion From the Publishing World

News of publishing's demise is greatly exaggerated. Wander into any bookstore, be it a ...

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‘Alternating Worlds’—Gary Wolf and the Definition of Humanity

Alternating Worlds by Gary Wolf iUniverse, Inc. ISBN-10: 0-595-34002-4 ISBN-13: 978-059534...

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Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Attacked, Defended

Author Harper Lee and her groundbreaking novel To Kill a Mockingbird have received a well-...

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A Lesson about the Second Amendment for Young Gun Owners

With My Rifle by My Side: A Second Amendment Lesson by Kimberly Jo Simac, with illustratio...

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Stephen King Strikes Out with ‘Blockade Billy’

Baseball inspires great stories. W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe and Bernard Malamud’s T...

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The World of ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’—George Orwell’s Unhappy School Days Writ Large

In a recent article (also available as a podcast), "The Brilliant but Confused Radicali...

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U.S. Publishers Head Overseas for New Crime Novels

Foreign menace strikes! Overseas crime novels are flooding U.S. shores, as American publis...

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New Book Provides Cultural Compass

Scott Nehring is a sometime film writer and current film critic, who blogs at GoodNewsFil...

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“Innocent Blood”—An Account of The Battle of Lexington by One Who Was There

The Battle of Lexington: A Sermon and Eyewitness Narrative (Originally titled: The Fate of...

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John Adams—A Witty Founding Father

The Quotable John Adams Edited by Randy Howe The Lyons Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59921-409-2 Fe...

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Yea, Hath God Said?—’A New Earth, An Old Deception’

A New Earth, An Old Deception: Awakening to the Dangers of Eckhart Tolle and His #1 Bestse...

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‘Hollywood Witches’: On Right Side, but Fails to Enchant

I love a good Hollywood story. The town's like an old trollop with a million tales to tell...

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Neglected Foundations — The Bible’s Influence in Shaping America

The Book That Made America: How the Bible Formed Our Nation by Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. Nor...

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The Erudite Flatfoot—Inspector Appleby

Appleby Talks About Crime by Michael Innes Edited by John Cooper Crippen & Landru Publ...

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A Great American Artist Tested the Limits of Liberal Tolerance

2009 was the centenary year of the birth of a great American artist and writer. At his pea...

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Convincing a Book-Loving Luddite to Pick Up a Kindle

Hi. My name is Daniel Crandall, and I’m a Biblio-holic. When I go into a bookstore I of...