Truths of the Heart: William Faulkner’s The Reivers
William Faulkner is the most famous American author that no one reads. My basis for saying this…
The Consummate Victorian: Charles Dickens
Take the Dickens Challenge! The long winter nights are a perfect time to revisit the greatest of…
The Bible as Literature Part 2
Pick up your Bible and let’s take a look at it together. First of all, the fact…
The Bible as Literature Part 1
In the four years that I have been writing this column we’ve examined nearly fifty classic works…
Harry Potter and the Uses of Enchantment
In the summer of 1999 we were on family vacation when I noticed a small review in…
Dostoevsky and Trollope Ask: What Would Jesus Do?
Fyodor Dostoevsky stands shivering in the middle of Semenovsky Plaza in St. Petersburg, Russia, the next in…
When You Just Want to Read a Good Mystery: The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins and Many More
Those of you who have read along with the Best Books Club over the years know that…
Certain is the Way: Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~St.Augustine The…
Getting Back to the Best Books: A Novel Idea
“‘Oh! it is only a novel!’ or, in short, only some work in which the most thorough…
More than a Rabbit Tale: Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Watership Down is the story of a bunch of bunnies that get crowded out of a field…