Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury

"Shrewd, well-written & penetrating analyses of some of the greatest mysteries of Mankind ... gleaned from a profound knowledge of the gospels." -- advance praise for I Judge No One from Andrew Roberts FRSL FRHistS, author of Napoleon the Great & many other bestselling biographies

Good words from the estimable Guy Stroumsa on my new book: "This fresh, insightful understanding of the figure of Jesus succeeds in turning the tables... The work of Giorgio Agamben on Paul is perhaps the closest parallel I can think of."

Religion of the heart, with trysts & quests & pangs of consolation - Geoffrey Hill Geoffrey Hill, 1984

In anticipation of October evenings, Bruckner's gorgeous little autumn nocturne ---

Great to see the Autumn-Winter Hurst Catalogue in print, in DC. I Judge No One is featured on p 16: "How can the narratives of the gospels, & their interpretation through the centuries, explain the highly political death of a deeply spiritual figure?" Out in December.

Very pleased to see that a noted historian of early Christianity (& author of an excellent book on Eusebius of Emesa), R. E. Winn, has called The Innocence of Pontius Pilate "unique and incisive", "necessary reading [on] the influence of the Christian tradition on western society".

It's good to find myself listening to an old disc of Glenn Gould's Brahms. I care less & less for his spare, pointillist play -- but, with Brahms, it's somehow revelatory. The romantic wave becomes light-bearing particles in his hands.

A very tranquil Oriel College, Oxford. I'm delighted to be giving a couple of seminars here, today & tomorrow, on the late-Cold War philosopher Jan Patočka.

"Before an absolute tribunal, only the angels would be acquitted." If you like this line by Emil Cioran, you'll like my next Hurst Publishers book on the gospels -- from which, through lines I sketch, anti-Christian Cioran takes his insight. Out in December --