Archive - The Rogation Dragon

Philip Roth's Holocaust Novel

Makes "The Producers" look like "Schindler's List"!

Jul 24 •

Comin' for to Carry Me Home

A hospice nurse, an unsober saint, what "Less Than Zero" is greater than, and more

Jul 17 •

The Miseducation of Cypress Hill

Maia Szalavitz on addiction as a learning disorder

Jul 10 •

In Soviet Russia, Cocktail Shakes You!

I read "the comic high-water mark of the Brezhnev era"

Jul 3 •

June 2024

The Bright Cell

He's a sculptor/And he's got a permanent case/Of "Ask too many questions and my harquebus will answer"

Jun 21 •

May 2024

Spring Break in Afghanistan

I journey to Xanadu with a mouthy Brit

May 30 •

Gay Catholic Mission Week St Louis June 1 - 7!!!!!

Building Catholic Very Very Near Futures

May 21 •

The Lapidary Tory

I read Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel of a guest among the Thatcherites

May 8 •

April 2024

Another Country

What is life, really, but a journey through the Hall of Locks and Keys in a colonial museum?

Apr 27 •

Love Lies Bleeding

I read "Mariette in Ecstasy"

Apr 10 •

March 2024

It Seemed He Fell

Charles Johnson's Buddhist-Christian novel about the "vaticide" of Martin Luther King, Jr

Mar 18 •

February 2024

Yes, We'll Gather At the River

A story collection about technofaith, technofauna, and monsters out of Tennessee

Feb 27 •

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