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.


A Novel Way to Approach Death

REVIEW: ‘Departure(s): A Novel’ by Julian Barnes

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

A Descent Into Poe's Maelstrom

REVIEW: 'Edgar A. Poe: A Life' by Richard Kopley

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

His Word Was His Bond

REVIEW: ‘Ian Fleming: The Complete Man’ by Nicholas Shakespeare

Not So Magical Thinking

REVIEW: ‘The World According to Joan Didion’ by Evelyn McDonnell

Conversion Therapy

REVIEW: ‘The Curious History of Weights and Measures’

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

CIA HEADQUARTERS

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’

Rembrandt's 'Homer'

Reading Homer Today

Review: Barbara Graziosi, ‘Homer’

How to Write a Review

Review: Elizabeth Bowen, Allan Hepburn (ed.), 'The Weight of a World of Feeling: Reviews and Essays'

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan’s Words

Review: Bob Dylan, 'The Lyrics: 1961-2012'

The Trouble With Evelyn Waugh

Review: Philip Eade, 'Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited'