Free Beacon Micah Mattix
Micah Mattix is an associate professor of English at Regent University and a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard. He edits the literary newsletter Prufrock.
Michael Connelly’s Courtroom Crusaders
REVIEW: ‘The Proving Ground: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel’ by Michael Connelly
Going the Distance
REVIEW: ‘The Big Hop: The First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future’ by David Rooney
The Right Way To Read
REVIEW: ‘13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read)’ by Christopher J. Scalia
Classes, Clubs, and Pubs: The World of C.S. Lewis
REVIEW: ‘C.S. Lewis’s Oxford’ by Simon Horobin
To Thine Own Hamlet Be True
REVIEW: ‘William Shakespeare’s Hamlet’ edited and annotated by Gideon Rappaport
Not So Magical Thinking
REVIEW: ‘The World According to Joan Didion’ by Evelyn McDonnell
Charles Frazier’s Claptrap of a Novel
REVIEW: ‘The Trackers: A Novel’ by Charles Frazier
Petrarch the Man
Review: Francesco Petrarca, Elaine Fantham (trans.), 'Selected Letters'
Eat Meat Like Whitman
Review: Walt Whitman, ‘Manly Health and Training,' introduction by Zachary Turpin
When Controversy Becomes Conspiracy
Review: Joel Whitney, ‘Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers’
The Faithful Poetry of Christian Wiman
Review: Christian Wiman, 'Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems'
Russia's Forgotten Anti-Stalinist Playwright
Review: Andrei Platonov, Robert Chandler (ed.), ‘Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays’
How to Write a Review
Review: Elizabeth Bowen, Allan Hepburn (ed.), 'The Weight of a World of Feeling: Reviews and Essays'
The Trouble With Evelyn Waugh
Review: Philip Eade, 'Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited'