Brad Shorr
A Review of Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life, Edited and Translated by Robert Spaethling Studying a person’s letters is an excellent way to explore an individual’s life and personality, and Robert Spaethling’s edition of Wolfgang Mozart’s letters makes the experience especially rewarding. As the editor provides a preface to every letter,…
Thomas Storck writes with great clarity, and is able to make extremely complicated topics understandable to the average reader. In his collection of essays, From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond, he takes on one of the most complicated topics imaginable, the centuries-long (and still unfolding) disintegration of Western civilization, or…
An Economics of Justice & Charity, subtitled Catholic Social Teaching, Its Development and Contemporary Relevance, does something quite remarkable: It makes an exceedingly complicated topic understandable to the average reader. Thomas Storck traces the modern development of economic aspects of Catholic teachings on social justice (roughly from the Industrial Revolution…
A fan of horror and science fiction from way back, I’ve come across countless references to H. P. Lovecraft, the early 20th-century New England horror story writer who influenced many of the great writers, filmmakers and artists in both genres. Prior to devouring this collection of his short stories, I had…