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A Review of Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age.

Given its title, Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age is unexpectedly narrow in its target audience and goals. Yet even more surprising is the power, richness, and far-­reaching value of the vision at its heart. This book is a guide for “Christian practices for teaching reading”Julie Ooms,…
Jon Singleton
November 7, 2024
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A Review of Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age.

Given its title, Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age is unexpectedly narrow in its target audience and goals. Yet even more surprising is the power, richness, and far-­reaching value of the vision at its heart. This book is a guide for “Christian practices for teaching reading”Julie Ooms,…
Jon Singleton
November 6, 2024
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Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry (Book Review)

Brad Leithauser’s new book, Rhyme’s Rooms, is a feast, a palace, a work of beauty that deserves a wide audience beyond the academy, as well as inclusion in any serious course on poetry. It also seems to be Christian scholarship of the best sort: serious intellectual work conversing in a rigorous and diverse secular profession,…
Jon Singleton
May 18, 2023
Book ReviewReviews

Rhyme’s Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry

Brad Leithauser’s new book, Rhyme’s Rooms, is a feast, a palace, a work of beauty that deserves a wide audience beyond the academy, as well as inclusion in any serious course on poetry. It also seems to be Christian scholarship of the best sort: serious intellectual work conversing in a rigorous and diverse secular profession,…
Jon Singleton
May 8, 2023