The Guild Review

This is our fifth week of heroic discernment here at the Guild Review, but since we started on Ash Wednesday, we're a week ahead of the...

Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) was the last of the great Irish bards. In ancient and medieval Ireland, the bards were poets and musici...

In the first two weeks we mostly considered what you might call background information.  These are items that Matt Bird or other scriptwr...

This week we'll be exploring two basic questions Bird poses about all characters: What role do you play in the story?  Hero, vill...

The other evening my wife and I watched Triumph of the Will , a film some of my history students will be watching.  This piece of Nazi prop...

This week we have fewer questions to discern than last week , but these are weightier matters.  Several of these topics would be deserving ...

Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is like Thus Spake Zarathustra , but with a sense of humor. Sartor Resartus is the effort of an imagin...