As Holy Week in the Christian calendar approaches, the Chesterton scholar Dale Ahlquist ponders our changed attitude to death, and how we now seem more afraid of life...
‘Overroads’ in the town of Beaconsfield was the first home of Frances and Gilbert Chesterton outside of London. The site of much of Chesterton’s early writing, it was...
Obituaries
Remembering Two ‘Champions of Chesterton’ – Part 1 (Clive James)
The late Australian author and broadcaster Clive James said of Chesterton that he “wrote a lot faster than most of us can read.” Karl Schmude reflects on James’...
Obituaries
Remembering Two ‘Champions of Chesterton’ – Part 2 (William Oddie)
The well-known English author and Chesterton biographer, William Oddie, is remembered by Francis Phillips as a “large personality in Catholic journalistic circles". Oddie served as editor of the...
Book review
Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874-1908 by William Oddie
Garry Nieuwkamp reviews this biography of Chesterton, published in 2008, which is of special value for the light it sheds on Chesterton’s early life and his intellectual development.
Charles Williams – a Chesterton Novel and Sexual Love
Charles Williams (1885- 1945), a contemporary of Chesterton, was a novelist, poet, playwright, literary critic and theologian. Richard Egan looks closely at Williams’ "Outlines of Romantic Theology", written...