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.


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'

Håkan Sandell

Sweden’s ‘Retrogarde’ Poet

Review: Håkan Sandell, Bill Coyle (trans.), ‘Dog Star Notations’

John le Carre

Lunching With Thatcher, Dancing With Arafat

Review: John le Carré, ‘The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life’