An excellent anthology, marred, and this only a little, by an over-cautious essay on the ethics of animal euthanasia (or what Tom Regan called “well-intentioned…
“To love reason…-to crave the eternal when we are beginning to know ever more about the reality of our time, to want the clearest concept…
In the most recent Nation Corey Robbin (BC-CUNY History Prof) reviews Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative, the collection Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in…
Here’s another story from the Aelred volume I’ve just read, here taken from his Life of Ninian: A certain man among the folk had a…
One of the books I picked up at Kzoo was an anthology of hagiography and miracles by Aelred of Rivaulx, The Lives of Northern Saints.…
Collection includes what’s probably Aelred’s best-known story, the miracle of the Nun of Watton. For my discussion, see here. What else? Precious few of what we…
The local section of the NY Times reports that the current pope loves cats: Though Benedict is the first pope to be written about by…
The better essays are Teresa Mangum’s “Dog Years, Humans Fears,” which opened me up to the proliferation of 19th-c. English works told from a dogs’-eye…
I met with an independent study student today about Sir Gowther. Without much luck, we tried to track Gowther’s developing relations with dogs after the…
Well, it certainly makes one want to turn the pages quickly. Brig. Guy-Richie and Apthorpe, both of whom I know from the The Oxford Book of…
