| The Chesterton Review, founded in 1974, has been widely praised both for its scholarship and for the quality of its writing. Edited by Fr Ian Boyd, it includes a wide range of articles not only on Chesterton himself, but on the issues close to his heart in the work of other writers and in the modern world.
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Robert P. George, McCormack Professor of Politics at Princeton University, describes it in this way:
Serious and lively, scholarly and popular, ecumenical and artisan, it is a rebuke to those who suppose that serious writing cannot be fun to read, or that an orthodox viewpoint must be a narrow one.
Author and critic Garry Wills writes:
In every issue of the Review there is something to surprise and delight.
British novelist Barbara Lucas Wall has described it as:
One of the best quarterly reviews - if not the best - currently in existence.
Joseph Sobran, a syndicated columnist, writes:
It is strange how seldom a literary journal is actually a good read. What makes The Chesterton Review so readable is not only its fresh writing, but its genius for bringing to vivid life a whole age of modern prophets - memorable men we seem destined to forget. Of these, Chesterton himself remains the greatest and most delightful. His wit has proved more durable than the mighty forces and fashionable ideas of his time.
Sheridan Gilley, author of a widely acclaimed biography of Newman, concurs:
The Chesterton Review is an expertly and attractively produced journal which achieves the difficult task of bridging the gap between an informed and intellectually sophisticated lay readership and the more specialized audiences of academia. In the modern world it is unusual to be both scholarly and readable, and it is a mark of The Chesterton Review that it is both, with contributions from distinguished scholars as well as from other citizens of the republic of letters. It plays an invaluable part in illuminating Chesterton's life and work, but beyond that, it also makes a significant contribution to a deeper understanding of the literary, philosophical and religious worlds of his time and place.
John Wren-Lewis, a mathematical physicist of the University of Sydney, Australia, and of M.I.T., U.S.A. writes:
The Chesterton Review is a far more important journal than its name might suggest to the undiscerning eye. It is concerned not just with the enormously wide-ranging and prescient work of G.K. Chesterton himself, but with the whole tradition of social, socio-economic, ecological, historical, philosophical and theological critique which he exemplified, a critique far more needed today, and on a global scale, than it was in the first part of the century when he made his unique mark in English literature, historiography and journalism. The Review fosters and promotes the continuance of that tradition ... all this is done with a high editorial regard for quality and scholarship which (again true to Chesterton) never degenerates into narrowness and obscurity, and is printed with an elegance which is astonishing considering the journal's affordability. As a result, it now enjoys an established reputation worldwide. It deserves to flourish in the new millennium, and the need for it is unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future.
THE CHESTERTON REVIEW
The Chesterton Review, a journal of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture
Editor: Ian Boyd, C.S.B.; Assistant Editor: Daniel Callam, C.S.B.
Managing Editor: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois
