The worries many people have about the Church of England and its future are not confined to the matters most hotly debated in Synod. C. H. Sisson does not pretend to have answers. What he does, in pieces which range over more than four decades, is to...

"In Two Minds" advances a single argument: that reading and writing are collaborative ventures with past and future. Tradition is a living resource. Sisson considers literary vocation, the act of reading, the practice of real criticism and the comed...