Wayfaring

"Alan Jacobs's essays offer a rich feast of intellectual pleasure and ethical nourishment. He combines an alert, sympathetic eye for the novelties of today's technological and artistic culture with a shrewd and solid sense of their moral and psychological effects. This book is bracing, salutary, witty, and profound -- and it's often all of these things on a single page." -- Edward Mendelson Columbia University author of The Things That Matter "A good volume of essays is a collection of aesthetically delightful and prismatically informative prose pieces, each short enough to be read at a sitting. There aren't many such volumes these days, which is a pity. Jacobs's Wayfaring is one: it exhibits wit, learning, and an ear for the language, and it will give you new loves while deepening those you already have. Do yourself a favor: buy and read." -- Paul J. Griffiths Duke Divinity School author of Intellectual Appetite "These essays enthrall, enlighten, ennoble, and entertain. There is nothing unpleasant here, so never mind the title. All of these essays are gems, nothing but delight for mind and soul -- and body, too, if one takes into account the therapeutic value of laughter and sheer delight." -- Carlos Eire Yale University author of A Very Brief History of Eternity and Waiting for Snow in Havana