Category Archives: Literature
The conservatism of Beatrix Potter
This essay was first published in the print edition of The European Conservative There is [...]
American Pilgrims: Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, and the Last Cultural Christians
In just fifteen days, we have lost two of the great American writers of our [...]
James Herriot’s Yorkshire: The World of All Creatures Great and Small
This essay was published in the 2024 print edition of The European Conservative magazine. I [...]
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Farewell to Wendell Berry
I wrote this column for The European Conservative for Wendell Berry’s 90th birthday. On August [...]
Charles Dickens attacked by the staff of his own museum
Over 150 years after his death, the great novelist and humanitarian Charles Dickens is facing [...]
The Racist Anti-White Smearing of Jane Austen
Emerging from the train station in Bath, my wife and I were greeted by the [...]
The least-known Laura Ingalls Wilder site in America
The tiny town of Burr Oak, Iowa, (population: 170) is easy to miss. One main [...]
The Pre-Persons: Philip K. Dick’s Forgotten Abortion Horror Story
Few science fiction writers have acquired the pop culture success of Philip K. Dick. The [...]
Reading Gerald Durrell in the Amazon jungle
Despite my lifelong obsession with wildlife, I only discovered the great naturalist writer Gerald Durrell [...]
The Lost World of Sterling North’s Rascal
It was a hot, humid morning when we reached the Sterling North Home and Museum [...]
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