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- Onward and Upward Read
An Instance of Honor, &c
On golfers, the Iran war, flag-waving, a Philippine Schindler, and more
- The Book Club Read
Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
Listen to Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... from The Book Club. In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker to discuss his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…Pinker explores the powerful idea of ‘common knowledge’ - not simply what we know, but what we know that other people know, and what we know they know we know.
Tausend Könige, kein Königreich
Ein Buch über Ausbeutung, Überleben und den Versuch, Mensch zu bleiben in einer Welt voll Tempo, Druck und Kontrolle: Hu Anyans Erinnerungen „Ich fahr Pakete aus in Peking“ Rezension von Oliver Pfohlmann zu Hu Anyan: Ich fahr Pakete aus in Peking. Ein intimer Bericht eines Niedriglohnarbeiters in China Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2025
Warum Klassiker lesen?
Thomas Groß wirbt in „Warum sich weiterlesen lohnt“ für anspruchsvolle Literatur Rezension von Michael Duszat zu Thomas Groß: Warum sich Weiterlesen lohnt Flur Verlag, Heidelberg 2026
- Close Readings Read
Narrative Poems: ‘Amours de Voyages’ by Arthur Hugh Clough
In 1848, Arthur Hugh Clough resigned his fellowship at Oxford after realising that he could no longer in good conscience teach the doctrines of the Anglican Church, as the job required. He immediately embarked on some European travel and the following year found himself in Rome during the short-lived republican uprising against the Pope, led by Giuseppe Mazzini.
- Ascend - The Great Books Podcast Read
How to Read Plato
Today on Ascend: The Great Books Podcast, we are preparing to read Plato’s Republic (we start next week!). Before turning to that long and demanding text, we ask a simple question: how do you read Plato well? Plato does not write treatises or lectures. He writes dialogues, and the setting, the characters, the irony, and
- St. Austin Review Read
Mining in a Lost Continent
Writing for the Harvard Library Bulletin in 2001, James Hankins described what he called a lost continent. He noted that “the Neo-Latin literature of the Renaissance and Baroque periods has been almost entirely forgotten.” Its being so fully forgotten means that it has become “an Atlantis, a lost continent of literature, sunken between Graeco-Roman literature [...]
- St. Austin Review Read
England’s True Queen
Our Lady of Walsingham has been the true queen of England for almost a thousand years... Our Lady of Walsingham: England’s Queen - Joseph Pearce
- St. Austin Review Read
Belloc’s Belinda
As a novelist, Hilaire Belloc was prolific though not always particularly adept. The one notable exception is his “Belinda” of 1928. Subtitled “A Tale of Affection in Youth and Age,” Belloc believed that this late novel was the one work of fiction with which he could feel satisfied… Belloc’s Belinda – Joseph Pearce
- St. Austin Review Read
Back in the Day
Reminiscing with the Troubadours… For the first time in many moons, the fab five were all present for Tuesdays with the Troubs – this time to reminisce about the halcyon days of their youth. In a touching and personal episode, get to a glimpse of the Troubadours as boys. Who held a paper route? Who was an avid baseball card collector? Who walked 10 miles to school uphill both ways, barefoot? Ok, nearly barefoot.
Günther Fetzer legt die grundlegend überarbeitete und stark erweiterte Auflage seiner Geschichte des Taschenbuchs vor
Hinweis von Redaktion literaturkritik.de zu Günther Fetzer: Das Taschenbuch. Geschichte – Verlage – Reihen UTB für Wissenschaft, Stuttgart 2019
Literatur und Leben
Mit „Nullsumme“ legt Joyce Carol Oates zwölf Stories zwischen Gegenwartsdiagnose und Dystopie vor Rezension von Werner Jung zu Joyce Carol Oates: Nullsumme. Stories Blessing Verlag, München 2025
- Books & Culture Read
“To Kill a Mockingbird” — Week 7 | Testimony, Rhetoric, and Credibility
Reading: Chapters 18–20
- The Book Club Read
34. American Psycho: Murder, Trump, and New York City
Why was the book so heavily censored on publication? Is the novel gratuitously violent? And, what happened when Tabby met Bret Easton Ellis?
- Ignatius Press Podcast Read
Henri de Lubac on Vatican II’s Dei Verbum w/ Dr. David Grumett
Dei Verbum is one of the most famous and pivotal works of Vatican II and thanks to the newly translated Divine Revelation, English speakers can now read Henri de Lubac’s commentary on this Constitution on Divine Revelation.
Kirchenkritik, Antisemitismus und ein Lob der Prostitution
Oskar Panizzas „Vermischte Schriften“ sind zwar oft scharfzüngig, aber mindestens ebenso oft widerwärtig Rezension von Rolf Löchel zu Oskar Panizza: Vermischte Schriften Teil 1-4 Günther Emigs Literatur-Betrieb, Niederstetten 2025
Wer hat Juliane Brunner ermordet?
In Caroline Seibts Thriller „Weil sie lügt“ zerbricht eine Familie nach dem Verschwinden der ältesten Tochter Rezension von Dietmar Jacobsen zu Caroline Seibt: Weil sie lügt. Thriller | Von Glauser-Preisträgerin Caroline Seibt Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, München 2026
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