-
Aug 28, 2024 | 
newversereview.substack.com | Ethan McGuire
With many thanks to editor Steven Knepper, I am proud to say that three of my poetry translations from the Classical Chinese of the Song Dynasty poet and general Yue Fei appear in the inaugural issue of New Verse Review: “A Poem at Galloping Horse Hill,” “Red River,” and “A Song of Drums.” I have also published “Between the Hillocks” at Literary Matters.
-
Aug 17, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Cole Murphy |Ethan McGuire |Guy Denton |Michael Lucchese
The latest entry in the franchise looks like the original, but it doesn’t feel like it. Published August 17, 2024 After more than four decades of sequels, prequels, and ill-advised crossovers, 20th Century Studios has seemed reluctant to accept that the Alien franchise had lost some of its bite. Ridley Scott’s original horror classic in 1979 permanently changed the alien-movie landscape with his dark masterpiece of tension-building.
-
Aug 3, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Ethan McGuire |Guy Denton |Stephanie Murray |Warren Smith
Marvel’s new movie shows how an exciting new concept has become a cliché. Published August 3, 2024 When Ryan Reynolds starred in the original Deadpool back in 2016, the title character seemed edgy. In an era of bland superhero movies, along came a violent antihero with a potty mouth and a deranged sense of humor. That shock value made Deadpool a smash hit.
-
Jul 31, 2024 | 
voegelinview.com | Ethan McGuire
After Basho, Buson, and Issa IEven in the Ozark Mountains hearing the bob-white’s call, I long for the Ozarks. IIThe origin of sound: a frog jumps into a fish pond— a snake slides in on his heels. IIIWalking sideways down the ridge, I pluck a dogwood blossom— even then, I know I’m on the roof of Hell. IVI pour some whiskey onto a tick crawling along my arm— maybe he is lonesome too. On my knees at the Brush Arbor, praying for God’s forgiveness— all the while, I keep swatting at mosquitos.
-
Jul 20, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Guy Denton |Ethan McGuire |Leah Schroeder
What day is this? Published July 20, 2024 Though we all got precious little sleep the past two weeks, we are nothing if not devoted to our listeners. In this belated Ruminant, Jonah looks back at a week that contained years (yet also very little). Is there much to say about J.D. Vance’s nomination and RNC speech? Did Trump, having survived an assassination attempt, cross the Hegelian threshold and become a nigh-Napoleonic age spirit?
-
Jul 20, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Ethan McGuire |Guy Denton |Hannah Long |Anthony M. Barr
In his essay “The Myth of the Old West,” the American literary critic T.K. Whipple wrote, “All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past but still lives in us. … Our forebears had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers.”This claim, of America’s struggle with the wilderness, permeates director Kevin Costner’s new four-part film series, Horizon: An American Saga.
-
Jul 19, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |Guy Denton |Ethan McGuire |Leah Schroeder
Charlotte Lawson is a reporter at The Dispatch and currently based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Prior to joining the company in 2020, she studied history and global security at the University of Virginia. When Charlotte is not keeping up with foreign policy and world affairs, she is probably trying to hone her photography skills.
-
Jul 19, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Guy Denton |Christopher J. Scalia |Kevin Williamson |Ethan McGuire
When Kiss was founded in 1973, the rock band’s four original members invented characters that reflected their obsessions. Bassist Gene Simmons—who had been raised on a steady diet of comic books and monster movies—became “the Demon,” a blood-spitting, fire-breathing creature from the land of nightmares. Frontman Paul Stanley became “the Starchild,” a flamboyant, lustful figure of rock and roll showmanship who sought to bury his insecurities beneath the adulation of fans.
-
May 29, 2024 | 
voegelinview.com | Ethan McGuire
Ethan McGuire is a writer and a healthcare cybersecurity professional whose essays, fiction, poetry, reviews, and translations have appeared in The Dispatch, Emerald Coast Review, Literary Matters, New Verse News, Post Modern Conservative, and University Bookman, among other publications, and he is the author of a new art and poetry chapbook, Songs for Christmas. He lives with his wife and daughter in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
-
Feb 12, 2024 | 
voegelinview.com | Ethan McGuire
In an age of canon destruction, definition confusion, and dragging corpse writers out of their graves for new judgments, contemporary Christian readers require some way to preserve the best Christian literature of the last two millennia. In the early days of the Internet, we might have been optimistic, saying the new constant archiving world would preserve this for us, but we know different by now.
