- Sanctuary by Edith Wharton: An OK drama
- Richard Sibbes by Mark Dever: Shows Dever as historian at his best, a great portrait of Sibbes (this is Dever’s thesis)
- Ivan Turgenev by Charles Moser: A fascinating essay on Turgenev.
- Many verses!: The importance of reading the Scriptures in Reformed worship by Ernest Springer: Quite polemical, not very winsome, and takes some odd positions. But it has some great points about reading in worship
- The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man by Brett McKay: A fine work towards restoring vintage manhood, though it probably glosses over a few important things while dwelling on less important matters
The Intense Gloom of Russian Literature
“Finally, in reading the works of Tolstoi, Turgenev, Dostoevski, Gorki, Chehkov, Andreev, and others, what is the general impression produced on the mind of a foreigner? It is one of intense gloom. Of all the dark books in fiction, no works sound such depths of suffering and despair as are fathomed by Russians.”
from Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps, p.78