The Good Books

Christopher J. Scalia has written a book that takes a valiant stand against the self-obsessed screen-culture spirit of our times. It’s called 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read). Scalia, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is a former English professor, and he has a deep and abiding love for literature as well as an evangelical streak that compels him to spread the joy. “Why read fiction?” he asks, and replies, “Simple: great fiction is a source of beauty, and beauty is good.”