The complete online text of Varied Types by G. K. Chesterton.

The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he converted to Roman Catholicism and became its champion. O...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer who wrote in such a variety of genres that he resists simple classification. Previous Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes have examined Chesterton as a poet, a dramatist, a traditional novelist, a myste...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist, essayist, master ideologue of religion and politics, and a seminal figure in the development of the modern detective story, was born on 29 May 1874 in Campden Hill, in the Kensington neighborhood of London. Chesterto...

With years of running behind him, ultra-distance champ Dana Miller knows just how tough hitting the trails can be. — “I have a Morton’s foot—where my second toe is larger than my big toe,” Miller tells MF. “I was always jamming my toes on the...

They call it the coming tsunami, veterans returning from Iraq who will suffer chronic pain years from now. Get ready, military doctors are warning pain specialists, even as they hope that slowly improving battlefield pain control may stem the tide.The idea is to block the...

They call it the coming tsunami, veterans returning from Iraq who will suffer chronic pain years from now. Get ready, military doctors are warning pain specialists _ even as they hope that slowly improving battlefield pain control may stem the tide.The idea: Block the agony...