Essayist and author Alberto Manguel, in A Reader on Reading (Yale, 2010), in a chapter titled “The End of Reading,” asks: “Why, at certain moments in our life, do we choose the companionship of one book […]
An unborn baby waits to be born. In the cramped confines of his mother’s womb, just weeks before his due date, an extraordinarily educated and eloquent little one is having a rough time of it. […]
Alyson Richman’s new novel The Velvet Hours is based upon a remarkable news story that would inspire any writer of historical fiction to put pen to paper. In 2014, an apartment in Paris was opened […]
In Britain, Ann Furedi’s name is synonymous with abortion apologetics. She is the director of one of Britain’s largest chains of abortion facilities and she makes frequent appearances at debates and in the press, defending […]
I first started reading the Harry Potter series during a stifling summer when it was impossible to have a conversation with any other member of the human race if one were not following the exploits […]
I cannot pretend that a book entitled Ethical Sex would normally jump off the shelf at me but Anthony McCarthy’s erudite exploration of human sexuality and its significance provides a worthy contribution to an academic […]
It is difficult to know where to start a review of a book as extraordinary as Corinna Turner’s Someday. I am not a fan of YA fiction as a rule but my attention was drawn […]
If you want to be disillusioned, meet your idols. If the idol concerned is long dead, read the biography. Better still, read an unsatisfactory biography. For British Catholics, Evelyn Waugh along with Graham Greene occupies […]
I have heard Dr Helen Watt, who is Senior Research Fellow (and former Director) of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, address subjects such as fertility and IVF in lectures around the UK and was keen to […]
During Lent 1998, a teenage girl, having just left an English convent school, knelt at the grotto of St. Jerome in the Holy Land. She prayed fervently, asking that through his intercession she would one […]
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