B. James Wilson

  • The Book Lady

    The Book Lady Of all the ways that Dolly Parton will be remembered, music legend, celebrity icon, or Queen of Country, the title she most enjoyed was the “Book Lady.” Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer. She was 80. The rhinestones, the wigs and the voice that could shatter…

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  • The Dragon Throne

    The Bible is not by any means a shallow book, yet most of us encounter only its surface. Between the familiar passages and the Sunday morning sermon lies a deeper conversation; one that few preachers or teachers are willing to have, and fewer congregations are prepared to hear. It runs beneath the well-worn verses like…

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and the Black Death of the Birthbed

    Portrait of a Physician‑Author Who Refused to Bow to Medical Hubris In the middle of the nineteenth century, when American medicine still wrapped itself in the robes of classical learning while ignoring the blood on its own hands, one man stood up and declared the unthinkable: physicians were killing the very women they claimed to…

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  • The Last of the Great Flying Boats: Farewell to the Philippine Mars

    There is a particular kind of grief that comes when an era ends not with a bang but with the quiet settling of a hull onto still water for the last time. On February 10th of 2025, the Philippine Mars, the last of the working flying boats in the world, made her final flight, touching…

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  • Characters Who Devoured Their Creators

    There is a peculiar hazard in the novelist’s trade, one that no apprenticeship in the craft quite prepares a writer to face: the creation that outlives its usefulness. Every author who has spent years in the company of a character knows the intimacy of that arrangement. The interior monologue, the tics of speech, the way…

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