Sitemap - 2023 - MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚
The Weird and Wild Mind of Charles Williams
Life Is Too Small Without Books
My Top 9 Books in 2023—and a Question
Short Takes: 17 One-Sentence Book Reviews
The Virgin Mary: Evolution of a Bookworm
Bookish Diversions: Publishing Troubles
My Classic Novel Goal for 2023—and What’s Coming Next
The Story of Eyeglasses from the Middle Ages to my Face this Week
Voices of the Past and Their Precarious Persistence
The Little Girl Who Helped Beat the Nazis
Classics as a Bridge to the World
Unraveling Narnia’s Genetic Code
Open Thread: One Author You’re Grateful For?
Rescuing One Woman’s Life from Oblivion
Shouldering the Burden of Belief
Open Thread: Too Long, Too Short?
All by Ourselves: Redeeming Loneliness
Many People at Once: The Role of Literary Translators
Bookish Diversions: When the Internet Was Analog
What Sort of Catastrophe Do You Prefer?
Open Thread: Books that Changed Your Thinking?
Take You Higher—and Then What?
Worth Every Ruble: Katz’s ‘Brothers Karamazov’
When You Just Don’t Feel Like Reading
Open Thread: Most Disturbing Book Ever?
Our Libraries Tell Us Stories, if We Listen
All the Horrifying Things We Do to Books
The Long, Bright Shadow of Russell Kirk
How Stories Work, Especially the Spooky Ones
G.K. Chesterton: The Man Behind the Fence
The Uses and Abuses of History
The Strange(r) Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Books Divide Us, but They Can Also Heal
‘A People Born of Trauma and Miracle’
Open Thread: Best Opening Lines?
‘Simultaneously Very Funny and Deeply Worrying’
Unpredictable Futures: Bonhoeffer and Bots
George Orwell: Terrific Writer, Terrible Husband
How to Survive an Apocalypse (Should You Ever Need To)
Bookish Diversions: Down the Memory Hole?
Resistance Is Not Futile: It’s How You Stay Sane
Protect Good Reading from Bad Schooling
All the Authors We Forgot Along the Way
‘Who We Are Depends on Who’s Watching Us’
Writing for a Living? Schedule It
A Woman on Her Own, Joyously and Fiercely Independent
Postscript to the C.S. Lewis–T.S. Eliot Story: ‘A Grief Observed’
Imagination Makes the World Go ’Round
C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot: How Rivals Became Friends
Bookish Diversions: Seeing and Being Seen
Mystery to Ourselves: The Brain’s Black Box
All There Is to Know, More or Less
Bookish Diversions: Publishing Boom and Bust
Daughter and Bride: The Story of Kristin Lavransdatter
One Tongue to Another: Found in Translation
Actually, Try Reading Several Books at Once
Artificial Authenticity? When Presentation Becomes Personality
That Hideous Farce and Other Offenses
What’s Reality? Make Your Best Guess
Let Us Now Praise Humble Bookmarks
Undoing the Damage We Do Each Other
Self-Help When Self-Help Doesn’t Work Anymore
3 Literary Deaths and the Ever-Evolving Book Business
My Dad Gave Me Books—And More Besides
Just His Type? Tom Hanks’s Mechanical Obsession
On the Go: The Age-Old Human Adventure of Migration
What the Humanities Can Offer Us (and AI, Too)
In Your Ear: Audiobook Pros and Cons
C.S. Lewis on Readin’ and ’Ritin’ (but not ’Rithmetic)
Culture Is What We Make It—All of Us
Slow Bullets: The Trajectory of Tragedy
‘Lead Us Not into Distraction’
Shakespeare’s Plan for Personal Growth
Bookish Diversions: Why Read Shakespeare?
Want to Understand History? You Have to See It All at Once
The Vital Necessity of Very Old Books
‘Culture Is a Huge Recycling Project’
Bookish Diversions: C.S. Lewis in Writing Hell
Kevin Kelly’s ‘Excellent Advice for Living’
Novels Are a Waste of Time. Except They’re Not
Catch-22: ‘They’re All Trying to Kill Me’
Bookish Diversions: Literary Capitalism
A Note to the Wise Is Sufficient
James and the Giant Question: Should We Cancel Roald Dahl?
Bookish Diversions: After the Final Chapter
G. K. Chesterton: Underrated Model for Social Engagement
Bookish Diversions: Polarized? Yes. Politicized? Please, No
Learning and Unlearning: Living with Ignorance
Bookish Diversions: Can Books Be Friends?
Jane Austen: Savage Queen of Snark and Satire
Bookish Diversions: Reading in Jail
We Build the World with Imagination
Slow Down and Read: The Point of Poetry
Women Saints and Scientists You Should Know
What Else Can We Censor While We’re Here?
Ideas Are Tools, and Words Can Heal
The Humanities Are Not Dead, Just Adjusting
Pinocchio Was an Insufferable Brat—and Also Like Jesus
The Irresistible Physicality of Books
The Cult of Authenticity: Life in the 1990s
‘Among the Dragons, There Will Always Be Heroes’
All the Books You’ll Never Read
First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Copy Editors?*
Worse Than Jerks: Why Some People Have Rotten Character
Paul Johnson, RIP; Objective History, Too
3 Levers People Pull to Solve Problems AI Can’t
Bookish Diversions: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Was Wrong