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WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-20: Folk Americana

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-20: Folk Americana

Over the Garden Wall is akin to Dante's Divine Comedy, but told through natively American imagery. I'll be showing this to my kids tonight. Friend of the blog Alexander Palacio has written several excellent threads on the Lord of the Rings, which you can find through

Gruesome Futures Book Review

Gruesome Futures Book Review

Gruesome Futures is the fourth of Jon Weichsel's Tales to Make You Vomit. Weichsel clearly believes in truth in advertising, as the title and cover are an honest description of what you will find inside. If anything, this cover is a little tamer than some of the previous

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-08-12: Book of the New Sun

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-08-12: Book of the New Sun

Okay, maybe even every two weeks is a little much right now. The Book of the New Sun is the Dark Souls of BooksGene Wolfe and Dark Souls are both difficult and engrossing. In demanding rereading and replaying, they resist the passivity of consumer culture.C.W. HowellC.W. Howell

Fixing Herbert's Mistake

Fixing Herbert's Mistake

I came across this article yesterday about how there is an opportunity with Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two to "fix" Herbert's mistake. That was a bold enough statement to give me an opportunity to explore what Frank Herbert was doing with Dune. The way

Don't threaten me with a good time

Don't threaten me with a good time

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-05-19: Bully

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-05-19: Bully

Towards a Christian Vitalism | Christian WinterA Response to John EhrettAmerican ReformerChristian Winter A Muscular Christianity for a new millennium Nuclear power helps bring down electricity prices by 75% in FinlandCountry expects wind to be its largest energy source by 2027The NationalJohn Benny Finland is a little less populous than Arizona,

Hacking Galileo Book Review

Hacking Galileo Book Review

Hacking Galileo by Fenton Wood is many things: an adventure, a lament for an age now lost, even a manual for subverting obsolete technology. This book is for the adults who once were the spergy GenX and GenY kids who are the stars of this book. The kids who built