Marginalia

Advice on Reading: Judge Your Author

Virginia Woolf on Literary Criticism

Nov 17, 2025

Advice on Reading: Become Your Author

Virginia Woolf on Immersive Reading

Nov 10, 2025

Advice on Reading: Take No Advice

Virginia Woolf on Freedom and Control

Nov 3, 2025

No Friends Like Book Friends

William Lyon Phelps on the Joy of Owning Books

Oct 27, 2025

Chew and Digest: The Art of Reading

Francis Bacon on Three Ways to Read a Book

Oct 20, 2025 • Abbie Overbey

Amusing Ourselves to Distraction

Technology and the Loss of Thought

May 14, 2024 • Abbie Overbey

A Christian Hero for Our Time

Reflections on The White Horse King by Benjamin Merkle

Oct 30, 2023 • Abbie Overbey

Plato, Aristotle, & Quintilian on Rhetoric

Tips on Teaching Rhetoric in a K-12 School

Aug 9, 2023 • Abbie Overbey

The Christian's Call to Creativity

Reflections on Schaeffer's Art and the Bible

Jun 28, 2023 • Abbie Overbey

How to Kill a Love of History

Woodrow Wilson and History Education

May 20, 2023 • Abbie Overbey

Reflections on John Milton's Of Education

Apr 12, 2023 • Abbie Overbey

I Have Not Lived in Vain

Reflections on "A Father's Prayer" by Douglas MacArthur

Mar 31, 2022 • Abbie Overbey

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