Drawing on the insights of one of Chesterton’s last essays, ‘The Case for Hermits’, the British journalist Hephzibah Anderson has highlighted its timely significance in the Age of...
Shedding Light by Switching Metaphors
The Foreign Editor of The Australian, Greg Sheridan, has long admired Chesterton and reveals in this article the lessons he has learnt from Chesterton about adopting unexpected approaches...
Laughter in the Service of Truth – Bruce Marshall
Gary Furnell analyses the Bruce Marshall novel, The World, The Flesh and Father Smith. Marshall (1899-1987) was a Scottish Catholic writer who, in the 1930s and later, employed...
Obituaries
A notable Chesterton scholar, John Coates, died in England in 2020 at the age of 76. This tribute to his work highlights several of the significant insights in...
Obituaries
While it is improbable that Chesterton and the late Australian poet, Bruce Dawe, were known to each other, as Dawe was only 6 years old when Chesterton died...
The selection by Garry Nieuwkamp for the occasional series, Desert Island Chesterton,is Chesterton’s epic poem, ‘Lepanto’, which Dr Nieuwkamp compares, in terms of vast output and the difficulty...