A big man, physically and intellectually, Gilbert Keith Chesterton finally gets the big book he deserves. Father Ian Ker, who wrote a well-respected biography of Newman, among other books, has ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The ordinary modern progressive position is that this is a bad universe, but will certainly get better. I say it ...

How GKC subverts the subversives. A prophet is never welcome in his own hometown. For a long time after the tumult of the Sixties, G. K. Chesterton’s writings seemed to have lost a welcome anywhere, ...

Some British comedy for a dreary Sunday: A bit from The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) by G.K. Chesterton (one of those British writers who, like Larkin and Amis the Elder, is no real friend to ...