About David Bentley Hart
Leaves in the Wind is devoted to all the things I have been writing about for years—World Literature; Religion, East and West; Philosophy (with a current emphasis on philosophy of mind); Theology; Metaphysics; Culture; Music; The Visual, Plastic, and Dramatic Arts, including Cinema; Baseball, including an obsessive veneration of Frank Robinson; Asian Arts, Languages, Literatures, Philosophies, and Religions; Japanese Aesthetics; Why Frank Robinson was the greatest player in the history of the game; Political Theory; Romanticism; Crab Cakes; Why there should be a national monument to Frank Robinson; The Sciences; Obscure Books; Philosophical Idealism; and so on.
As ever, I write in various forms—essays, short stories, long disquisitions, dramatic dialogues, poems, satires, conversations with Roland, or whatever else takes my fancy. I make every effort to be as diverting as possible without becoming merely facetious, and as reflective as possible without becoming merely ponderous. New material appears more or less weekly. One regular feature is devoted to great but largely unknown works of literature. This follows from an article of mine that has proved more popular than I could have anticipated, “Books from a Vanished Library,” which also served as the introduction to my collection The Dream-Child’s Progress.