Descartes’s Orphans

A word of caution to those who might see Imaginative Conservative contributor and philosophy professor Siobhan Nash-Marshall’s new novel with its drawing of a beautiful reddish dragon emitting a wreath of blue smoke over a black-and-white New York skyline: this modern-day telling of St. George is not going to be the kind of thing to read to your nine-year-old. For that, I would recommend Michael Lotti’s St. George and the Dragon (CreateSpace, 2014), which depicts George as a Roman military officer who discovers Christian faith on leave from the Legion and fights a supernatural but very flesh-and-blood dragon.